Mirrors of Splendor
When John’s book was written, five generations had passed since the young rabbi taught. What stories would be remembered? His words and movements echoed still, like a bronze bowl singing as the wooden striker makes sweeping arcs around its rim. Jesus is praying to his Love, the Friend who’s heart beats within him, on behalf […]
O Dust, Arise! – Apr. 22, 2021
The clearing rests in song and shade,it is a creature madeby old light held in soil and leaf,by human joy and grief,by human work,fidelity of sight and stroke,by rain, by water onthe parent stone.We join our work to Heaven’s gift,our hope to what is left,that field and woods at last agreein an economyof widest worth,High […]
Dissolved or Destroyed? – Apr. 7, 2021
“Will matter then be utterly destroyed or not?” The Saviour replied, “Every nature, every modeled form, every creature, exists in and with each other. They will dissolve again into their own proper root. For the nature of matter is dissolved into what belongs to its nature. Anyone with two ears able to hear should listen!” […]
Transformation – Feb. 16, 2021
“As I sat quietly in the garden, I realized the power of transfiguration—of God’s transformation—in our world. The principle of transfiguration is at work when something so unlikely as the brown grass that covers our veld in winter becomes bright green again. Or when the tree with gnarled leafless branches bursts forth with the sap […]
