Time to Thrive – Mar. 15, 2023
“We shall be known by the company we keepby the ones who circle round to tend these fires We shall be known by the ones who sow and reapthe seeds of change alive from deep within the earth It is time now.It is time now that we thrive.It is time we lead ourselves into the […]
Underneath
Beneath the feet of the monks, that which holds them and their houses of prayer, is this land. Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery on the coast of South Carolina, is where we’re on retreat. The land of my childhood. Beneath the years of their prayerful songs, as old as my dad, there is that which will outlast […]
Holy Surrender – Dec. 21, 2022
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can’t see. -Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
Chickadee Waits – Nov. 29, 2022
“A chickadee on a winter night burns through all the calories it ate during the day. Before dawn, as soon as there’s light enough to see, the chickadee flutters out, famished, its tiny brain intent on seeds. Tiny, its brain, but bigger now, in Advent, than in spring… Inside that black skullcap his hippocampus is […]
