Advent Awakening
This is the time of the year when the nights are the longest. Darkness comes before dinner and greets me when rising for an early start to the new day. The dark December sky envelops each day with its own language. It is a celestial language of mystery, humming with eternity, stretching my awareness to […]
Christmas is Coming
Today I feel softened by coronavirus time. What a strange thing to feel! For most of this year, March through November, I have felt quite the opposite. I felt hardened. Fear, frustration, anxiety, depression tore at my heart. I found myself hunkering down, stifled, and resistant. Amidst all the uncertainty my vision shrank. I was […]
They Can Be Like a Sun – July 24, 2020
They can be like a sun, words. They can do for the heartwhat light canfor a field. –St. John of the Cross, Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, trans. Daniel Ladinsky, p. 324
Different Needs – July 20, 2020
They Have Different Needs Some seeds beneath the earthare dormant.They fell the last time the cool airturned the leavesgold.Those seeds have different needs than we do;let them go about their lifecompletely unharmedby your views.We have cracked open, we sensedeven beneath the earth—the holy was near,and are reaching up to knowand claimlightas ourself. –St. John of […]
