Accepting Love – July 21, 2021
“Alone with God, we feel no need to perform, to do. The pressure is off. That good, refreshing feeling is nothing less than an experience of God’s accepting love. It is the healing power of an eternal passion that is consummated in the reunion of creature and Creator. God is delighted by our act of […]
Healing Inward and Outward
Sometimes life presses in on me. With a body tired, a mind swirling with a multitude of thoughts, a heart aching, what desires to be open, present, and engaged is lost to me. The pressing has me feeling separate from the Source of animating vitality. The creativity and compassion cannot flow. I need to rest […]
The Seedling’s Need – June 17, 2021
How shall the mighty river reach the tiny seed?See it rise silently to the sun’s yearning,sail from a winter’s cloudflake after silent flakepiling up layer upon layeruntil the thaw of springto meet the seedling’s need. Make tender, Lord, my heart:released through gentlenessThine own tremendous powerhid in the snowflake’s art. –Antoinette Adam, in Earth Prayers From […]
Help Me Listen – Apr. 14, 2021
O holy One,I hear and say so many words,yet yours is the word I need.Speak now,and help me listen,and if what I hear is silence,let it quiet me,let it disturb me,let it touch my need,let it break my pride,let it shrink my certainties,let it enlarge my wonder. –Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace
