Our Real Work – July 13, 2020
It may be that when we no longer know what to do,we have come to our real workand when we no longer know which way to go,we have begun our real journey.The mind that is not baffled is not employed.The impeded stream is the one that sings. –Wendell Berry, “Our Real Work”
Journeying Soul – Jan. 30, 2020
“When your ship, long moored in harbor, gives you the illusion of being a house… Put out to sea! Save your boat’s journeying soul, and your own pilgrim soul, cost what it may.” —Hélder Câmara
Gifts of Darkness
As a child in the Pacific Northwest, I fell in love with the night sky. Days were often overcast or rainy, but at night, the clouds would part and I could see the canopy of constellations, there to guide ships at sea. My dad would even wake us up to see an eclipse of the […]
Singing of Angels – Dec. 30, 2019
This week’s reflections are from From the Inward Journey, a collection of writings by Howard Thurman, selected by his daughter, Anne Spenser Thurman. Thurman (1899 – 1981) was an African-American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader who was involved in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century. “There must be […]
