Greening Power
I am still reflecting on the silent retreat day at Dayspring this week. An unseasonably warm late-winter day, our time began with an overcast sky, a soft, warm breeze and bright birdsong. The cloudy sky was like a vast blanket of cotton balls scudding west across meadow and forest. Hildegard’s poem about the ever-creating Source of all […]
Silence – Mar. 2, 2022
“Every tradition conceives of silence as “the Gateway to God,” the entrée to spiritual wisdom, the beginning of interior peace, the first step to self-control. Silence, the masters repeat, is the first step to wisdom, the door to self-awareness. Silence, the monastics come to realize, is the link that connects us to the Divine. However […]
Solitude – Feb. 16, 2022
“Solitude is not a practice just for ourselves but a practice to cultivate within each of us a greater capacity for living in communion with the world. In solitude we are able to listen more intimately for the whispers of the divine alive in each moment.” –Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening, p. 107
At the Center of My Being – Jan. 3, 2022
Abba: I begin this day with gratitude for the gift that is hidden in my center. Remind me in the silence of surrender that I am connected by more than what keeps me apart. Help me see that at the center of all that lives is a small piece of the very beginning, which was […]
