Time to Rise – Aug. 12, 2021
“We must work with time and patience if we want to make bread. There is no point in making it if we do not accept this. This is true of loving also. Awareness … acceptance … patience. It takes everything we have to be able to live this way. It means that we finally take […]
Just Believe
Is the world a friendly place or not? Einstein said each person’s answer is the key to the way one lives. I have considered this question many times over the years. Mostly my answer has been yes. Even in the face of the horrors of injustice, violence, and death, my yes has strengthened the resolve […]
Sabbath Grace – Apr. 21, 2021
Six days of work are spentto make a Sunday quietthat Sabbath may return.It comes in unconcern;we cannot earn or buy it.Suppose rest is not sentor comes and goes unknown,the light, unseen, unshown.Suppose the day beginsin wrath at circumstance,or anger at one’s friendsin vain self-innocencefalse to the very light,breaking the sun in half,or anger at oneselfwhose […]
The Blessedness of Waiting – Nov. 9, 2020
“The blessedness of waiting is lost on those who cannot wait, and the fulfillment of promise is never theirs. They want quick answers to the deepest questions of life and miss the value of those times of anxious waiting, seeking with patient uncertainties until the answers come. They lose the moment when the answers are […]