Help Me – Jan. 27, 2022
O God I place myself with those who struggle this night. I am here in need I am here in pain I am here alone O God help me. –J. Philip Newell, Celtic Prayers from Iona, p.56
The Spirituality of Paradox – Sep. 21, 2021
“In the language of sacred tradition, the emotional center carries the “reconciling” force. It serves as a bridge between the mind and the body and also between our usual physical world and this invisible other realm. When properly attuned, the emotional center’s most striking capacity, lacking in the mind alone, is the ability to comprehend […]
The Giver – Sep. 17, 2021
“I have a friend, a chemotherapy nurse in a children’s cancer ward, who’s job it is to pry for any available vein in an often emaciated arm to give infusions of chemicals that sometimes last as long is 12 hours and which are often quite discomforting to the child. He is probably the greatest pain […]
Something – June 30, 2021
Something opens our wings. Somethingmakes boredom and hurt disappear.Someone fills the cup in front of us.We taste only sacredness. -Jelaluddin Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, p. 280
