Becoming Clear – Aug. 7, 2019
“Take time to gaze in wonder at Nature, the flight of a bird, a flower in bloom, the dry leaf crumbling to dust, the flow of a river, the rising of the moon, a silhouette of a mountain against the sky. And as you do this the hard, protective shell around your heart will soften […]
A Feel for All – Aug. 6, 2019
“God’s kingdom is love. What does it mean to love? It means to be sensitive to life, to things, to persons, to feel for everything and everyone to the exclusion of nothing and no one. For exclusion can only be achieved through a hardening of oneself, through closing one’s doors.” –Anthony de Mello, The Way […]
A Point Beyond Space – Aug. 5, 2019
“Our soul makes constant noise, but it has a silent place we never hear. When the silence of God enters us, pierces our soul and joins its silent secret place, then God is our treasure and our heart. And space opens before us like a fruit that breaks in two. Then we see the Universe […]
After Being in Love, the Next Responsibility – July 17, 2019
Turn me like a waterwheel turning a millstone.Plenty of water, a Living River.Keep me in one place and scatter the love.Leaf-moves in wind, straw drawn toward amber,all parts of the world are in love,but they do not tell their secrets. Cows grazingon a sacramental table, ants whispering in Solomon’s ear.Mountains mumbling an echo. Sky, calm.If […]