Glory

Glory* is one of those weird, special, Christian-ish words that rarely gets used in everyday life. While the official definition has something to do with praise and honor, in my mind it is always connected with light. A long, long time ago, when I lived in Jerusalem, I became friendly with a woman that I […]

Holy Surrender – Dec. 21, 2022

  All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can’t see.   -Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have 

Plotting Resurrection – Sept. 30, 2022

“E.B. White watched his wife Katharine planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life and later wrote about it: “There was something comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance… The small hunched-over figure, her studied absorption in the implausible notion that there would be yet another spring, oblivious […]

Your Good Road – July 25, 2022

“O Great Spirit, our Father from above, your name as sacred and holy.Bring your good road to us, where the beauty of your ways in the spirit-world above is reflected in the earth below.Provide for us day by day–the elk, the buffalo, and the salmon. The corn, the squash, and the wild rice. All the good […]