Mysticism Involves Movement – Dec. 1, 2020
“In my experience, mysticism has always involved movement. That’s not like the unique whirling dervishes’ mystical prayers practiced for seven hundred years by the Sufi branch of Islam, although that is a fascinating study. Rather, simply walking, mindful of God’s presence, helps walk me away from inherited forms of spiritual practice.” –Wes Granberg-Michaelson, Without Oars, […]
Let Wonder Have Its Way with Me – Oct. 15, 2020
O God, your gracious Spiritmoves over the mysteries of living and dyingand is strangely present to mein the falling leaves,the call of wild geese,a child’s birth,the light in a friend’s eyes,the sudden lifting of the heart,and the deep longing which brings me to you now.Make me aware of your presencethat wonder may have its way […]
Waken in Me a Sense of Joy – Oct. 13, 2020
O extravagant God,in this ripening, red-tinged autumn,waken in me a sense of joyin just being alive,joy for nothing in generalexcept everything in particular;joy in sun and rainmating with earth to birth a harvest;joy in soft lightthrough shyly disrobing trees;joy in acolyte moonsetting halos around processing clouds;joy in the beating of a thousand wingsmysteriously knowing which […]
What We Need Is Here – July 16, 2020
Horseback on Sunday morning,harvest over, we taste persimmonand wild grape, sharp sweetof summer’s end. In time’s mazeover fall fields, we name namesthat rest on graves. We opena persimmon seed to find the treethat stands in promise,pale, in the seed’s marrow.Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to […]
