Sweet Darkness – Jan. 3, 2023
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweetconfinement of your alonenessto learn anything or anyonethat does not bring you alive is too small for you. –David Whyte, The House of Belonging, p. 23
The Journey – Jan. 2, 2023
“Sometimes withthe bones of the blacksticks left when the firehas gone out someone has writtensomething newin the ashesof your life You are not leaving…you are arriving“ –David Whyte, excerpt from “The Journey”, The House of Belonging, p. 38 Full poem: https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/08/13/the-journey-by-david-whyte/
This Kind Moment – Dec. 22, 2022
The way the light falls through the windows. The sounds our silence makes when we come together like this. The sense we have of each other’s presence. The feeling in the air that one way or another we are all of us here to give each other our love, and to give God our […]
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