The Flow of Blessing – Oct. 8, 2021
“The truth that life and death make sense is not accessible to the senses. Nor is it something our intellect can prove. But our heart rises to this conviction when we give ourselves willingly to blessing received and blessing passed on. When all is said and done, only this makes sense: to be a channel […]
Healing Inward and Outward
Sometimes life presses in on me. With a body tired, a mind swirling with a multitude of thoughts, a heart aching, what desires to be open, present, and engaged is lost to me. The pressing has me feeling separate from the Source of animating vitality. The creativity and compassion cannot flow. I need to rest […]
Part of Everything – May 27, 2021
“Our task is to drop our hostility and our estrangement from the creation and to begin to rest in it. To connect with it. To give it our friendship. Our work is to nurture creation, and to be nurtured by it. To meet God through it.” –Gordon Cosby, Seized by the Power of a Great […]
In God’s Care
One of the earliest most indelible images of Jesus from my childhood is the Good Shepherd, the subject of this Sunday’s gospel.* If there is a psalm we know by heart, I can bet it is Psalm 23. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures….” […]
