Honor God
Why don’t you follow the usual rituals?* Rituals and traditions are passed along to us, not always with clear understanding of their meanings and purposes, their place in our lives. Mindlessly we keep old ways alive because we feel to do otherwise would not honor tradition. What was good in the past surely is still […]
Something – June 30, 2021
Something opens our wings. Somethingmakes boredom and hurt disappear.Someone fills the cup in front of us.We taste only sacredness. -Jelaluddin Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, p. 280
I Am Still With You
Our embodiment is the concern of the lectionary this week. Our bodily temples† are revered as sacred, and blessed as such in the rite of Holy Communion and other sacraments. The body is nonetheless frail and temporary. I hope current events at least serve to remind us not to take our health for granted. God […]
Heaven Invades the Earth – Aug. 10, 2020
Earth cannot escape heaven, flee it by going up, or flee it by going down.Heaven still invades the earth, energizes it, makes it sacred…God is at home (here). It is we who have gone out for a walk. –Meister Eckhart (1260-1329)
