Sabbath Grace – Apr. 21, 2021
Six days of work are spentto make a Sunday quietthat Sabbath may return.It comes in unconcern;we cannot earn or buy it.Suppose rest is not sentor comes and goes unknown,the light, unseen, unshown.Suppose the day beginsin wrath at circumstance,or anger at one’s friendsin vain self-innocencefalse to the very light,breaking the sun in half,or anger at oneselfwhose […]
Left to Grace – Apr. 20, 2021
Whatever is foreseen in joymust be lived out from day to day.Vision held open in the darkby our ten thousand days of work.Harvest will fill the barn; for thatthe hand must ache, the face must sweat.And yet no leaf or grain is filledby work of ours; the field is tilledand left to grace. That we […]
Open It Wide – Apr. 19, 2021
Enclosing the field within boundssets it apart from the boundlessof which it was, and is, a part,and places it within care.The bounds of the field bindthe mind to it. A brideadorned, the field now wearsthe green veil of a season’sabounding. Open the gate!Open it wide, that timeand hunger may come in. –Wendell Berry, Sabbaths, “IX” […]
Water as Gift – Aug. 30, 2019
“I thought to myself, “If we were conscious, we would fall down on our knees and give thanks every day for water and safeguard her with our lives.” I began to make a practice of saying a prayer of gratitude every time I used water to clean, cook, bathe, or drink. Simple gratitude for her […]
