If You Love – July 22, 2020
You might quiet the whole world for a second if you pray. And if you love, if youreally love, our guns willwilt. –St. John of the Cross, Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, trans. Daniel Ladinsky, p. 317
Life on Earth – July 3, 2020
“And this is it. This is the life we get here on earth. We get to give away what we receive. We get to believe in each other. We get to forgive and be forgiven. We get to love imperfectly. And we never know what effect it will have for years to come. And all […]
For Something Greater – June 25, 2020
“To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.” ―Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again
Did I Tell You? – May 18, 2020
“Now that you are almost grown I look back and ask myself. Did I tell you? Did I tell you all that I meant to tell you, all that I felt was important. Did I tell you or was it lost in the shuffle of our everyday lives. The busy full days when we taught […]