The Journey – Jan. 2, 2023
“Sometimes withthe bones of the blacksticks left when the firehas gone out someone has writtensomething newin the ashesof your life You are not leaving…you are arriving“ –David Whyte, excerpt from “The Journey”, The House of Belonging, p. 38 Full poem: https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/08/13/the-journey-by-david-whyte/
Holy Surrender – Dec. 21, 2022
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can’t see. -Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
God Comes as Our Life – Dec. 20, 2022
“The genius of the biblical revelation is that we will come to God through “the actual,” the here and now, or quite simply what is. As Paula D’Arcy says, “God comes to us disguised as our life.”” -Richard Rohr, “Negative Capability”, Center for Action and Contemplation – Daily Meditations, Jan. 11, 2016
Bewilderment
We enter this week before Christmas telling the story, beginning with these simple words: This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.* I am struck by how ordinary (i.e., messy) is the start of the life of a Messiah. Messy in that it is not what we expect, not all that tidy and neat, and […]
