Babe
Whether on a church sign or a doormat, the word “welcome” doesn’t always tell the truth. What we do know is that it’s fixed in place. A true welcome is a stance, a practice, a moving thing. It’s most powerful when it’s in loving pursuit, carried in an outstretched hand: Medicine for the wounded, food for the […]
Body and Spirit
When I was younger, I noticed how people a lot older than me talked a lot about their health, mainly their aches and pains and the next doctor’s visit or medical procedure. Now at a more advanced age, I am doing the same thing! Mercy. But it sure has me reflecting on the body’s amazing […]
Night Surrender to Praise at Dawn – Nov. 16, 2021
“In the middle of the night I hold hands with trust and surrender to the One who sees without a light… My prayer travels deep into my soul space, into the essence of my being. Rising from sleep, I raise high the chalice of my life. Dressed in robes of joyful anticipation, I enter this […]
A World of Prayer – June 14, 2021
Lord, the air smells good today, straight from the mysterieswithin the inner courts of God.A grace like new clothes thrownacross the garden, free medicine for everybody.The trees in their prayer, the birds in praise,the first blue violets kneeling.Whatever came from Being is caught up in being, drunkenlyforgetting the way back. –Rumi, in Earth Prayers From […]
