Magnaminity
I remember when my husband and I had just indulged in giant-scoop ice cream cones of our favorite flavor, jamoca almond fudge. Stumbling on the cobblestone pavement, his cone flipped, and the ice cream fell out. A young child behind us gasped and stepped up, holding out her own cone as solace. Who could have imagined this magnanimous […]
Suzanne – Sept. 19, 2022
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the waterAnd he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden towerAnd when he knew for certain only drowning men could see himHe said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free themBut he himself was broken, long before the sky would […]
Hiding – Sept. 9, 2022
“To my mind, one of the great necessary inner disciplines is the ability to stay close to what is still hidden and unannounced in us, the interior ‘deep but dazzling darkness’ out of which any new and worthwhile future will be announced.” –David Whyte, Essentials, p. 102
Dining with Demons
It has always seemed to me that what the Bible calls demon possession* looks a lot like mental illness. Because it runs deeply in my family, I have learned to live with cyclical depression, which periodically disorders my thinking like an inner demon that wants to drive me to ruin. After so many years, I […]
