Send Me Tough Angels – Sept. 2, 2022
I am not asking youto take this wilderness from me,to remove this place of darknesswhere I come to knowthe wildness within me,… But send metough angels,sweet wine,strong bread:just enough. –Jan Richardson, excerpt from “Desert Prayer“, In Wisdom’s Path, p. 54
Language to God – Aug. 29, 2022
“What I struggle with here is the language to God, language which engages me with God, opens me to God, and emerges out of my deepest self, I believe that when it comes to this sort of language, this language to God, we are all pilgrims.” –Jan Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path (Pilgrim Press, 2000), xiv
Into the Heart of Every Christian – Aug. 18, 2022
“As I understand it, into the heart of every Christian, Christ comes, and Christ goes. When, by his Grace, the landscape of the heart becomes vast and deep and limitless, then Christ makes His abode in that graceful heart, and His will prevails. The experience is recognized as Peace. In the absence of this experience […]
A Soul’s Worth
The direction she gave was exactly as my mother taught, so I knew it to be a perennial truth, even though I was five years old. Our kindergarten teacher, Ms. Olive Garrett, took Richard by the hand, whispering in his ear, showing him how to share the wooden blocks he was hoarding. I was the student […]