Power of the Threshold – Apr. 18, 2022
“The Resurrection is not a single event, but a loosening of God’s power and light into the earth and into history that continues to alter all things, infusing them with the grace and power of God’s own holiness. It is as though a door was opened, and what poured out will never be stopped, and […]
In the Beginning
In the quiet of this morning I recall the prayer and gestures of the priest as he stands ready at the lectern before reading a gospel narrative each week. I make the sign of the cross on my forehead and say, dear God, may your Word be upon my mind; and then the gesture again […]
Courage Unparalleled – Dec. 24, 2021
She did not cry, ‘I cannot. I am not worthy,’Nor, ‘I have not the strength.’She did not submit with gritted teeth, raging, coerced.Bravest of all humans, consent illumined her.The room filled with its light,the lily glowed in it, and the iridescent wings.Consent, courage unparalleled,opened her utterly. –Denise Levertov, from her poem Annunciation
Open It Wide – Apr. 19, 2021
Enclosing the field within boundssets it apart from the boundlessof which it was, and is, a part,and places it within care.The bounds of the field bindthe mind to it. A brideadorned, the field now wearsthe green veil of a season’sabounding. Open the gate!Open it wide, that timeand hunger may come in. –Wendell Berry, Sabbaths, “IX” […]
