A Burning Spirit – Aug. 22, 2019
Who is the Holy Spirit?The Holy Spirit is a Burning Spirit.Like tympanum and lyre it plays them,gathering volume in the temple of the soul.The Holy Spirit isLife-giving-life.All movement. Root of all being.Purifier of all impurity.Absolver of all faults.Balm of all wounds.Radiant life, worthy of all praiseThe Holy Spirit resurrects and awakenseverything that is. –Hildegard of […]
Living in God – June 6, 2019
“Life is relationship, learning to relate to the whole earth and all that is therein. But in the end every cherished person must be surrendered, every familiar place given up, every precious object handed over. All of our dyings are preparation for a final dying; all of our births, preparation for the resurrection. God who […]
Practice Resurrection
“Come and have breakfast.” This is the risen Christ’s invitation to his disciples in today’s post-resurrection encounter.* Some readers of this gospel story focus on the miracle of an overabundance of fish suddenly manifesting at Jesus’ instruction where a night of fishing by his disciples had been for naught. For me the miracle is in […]
How Do We Know?
I’ll confess right here: in my youth, I spent a good bit of psychic energy wrestling with myself and others over the question of whether Jesus’ post-Resurrection appearances could have been captured by a video camera. Behind the question was my tacit assumption that if the answer were, “No, a videotape would have shown nothing,” […]
