A Shared Grain of Hope – July 29, 2020
I have a small grain of hope—one small crystal that gleamsclear colors out of transparency. I need more. I break off a fragment to send you. Please takethis grain of a grain of hopeso that mine won’t shrink. Please share your fragmentso that yours will grow. Only so, by division,will hope increase, like a clump […]
Patient Trust – July 28, 2020
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progressthat it is made by passing through […]
Everything Has a Deep Dream – July 27, 2020
I’ve spent many years learninghow to fix life, only to discoverat the end of the daythat life is not broken There is a hidden seed of greater wholenessin everyone and everything.We serve life bestwhen we water itand befriend it.When we listen before we act. In befriending life,we do not make things happenaccording to our own […]
They Can Be Like a Sun – July 24, 2020
They can be like a sun, words. They can do for the heartwhat light canfor a field. –St. John of the Cross, Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, trans. Daniel Ladinsky, p. 324
