Unpredictable Love
Jesus and his disciples are sitting around the Passover table. Yet again he has taken his closest friends by surprise, kneeling down to wash their feet. Finished, he takes his place again. “Love one another as I have loved you,” he says.* It’s hard enough to love people the established ways: to put food on […]
Logos – May 3, 2021
Why worry about the loaves and fishes?If you say the right words, the wine expands.If you say them with loveand the felt ferocity of that loveand the felt necessity of that love,the fish explode into many.Imagine him, speaking,and don’t worry about what is reality,or what is plain, or what is mysterious.If you were there, it […]
A Friendship Blessing – Apr. 30, 2021
May you be blessed with good friends.May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.May you be able to journey to that place in your soul wherethere is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.May this change you.May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.May you be brought in to the real […]
Innate Recognition – Apr. 29, 2021
“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.” -John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom