Centering Down – July 19, 2021
How good it is to center down!To sit quietly and see one’s self pass by!The streets of our minds seethe with endless traffic;Our spirits resound with clashing, with noisy silences,While something deep within hungers and thirsts for the still moment and the resting lull. …As we listen, floating up through all of the jangling echoes […]
A Certain Day – June 18, 2021
A certain day became a presence to me;there it was, confronting me — a sky, air, light:a being. And before it started to descendfrom the height of noon, it leaned over and struck my shoulder as if withthe flat of a sword, granting mehonor and a task. The day’s blowrang out metallic — or it […]
The Seedling’s Need – June 17, 2021
How shall the mighty river reach the tiny seed?See it rise silently to the sun’s yearning,sail from a winter’s cloudflake after silent flakepiling up layer upon layeruntil the thaw of springto meet the seedling’s need. Make tender, Lord, my heart:released through gentlenessThine own tremendous powerhid in the snowflake’s art. –Antoinette Adam, in Earth Prayers From […]
Bakerwoman God – June 16, 2021
“Bakerwoman God, I am your living bread, strong, brown Bakerwoman God. I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf. I am your rising bread, well kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, by your warm earth hands. I am bread well-kneaded. Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God, put me in your own bright […]
