Contemplation – Mar. 18, 2021
“Contemplation is about stepping out of the world of surface appearances and illusions and into eternity in the presence of God. The eternal reality is that each of us bears a “weight of glory” that would dazzle us like the sun, if we looked straight into it now. But like the sun, seeing by its […]
Sunrise – Jan. 20, 2021
Sunrise, as you enter the houses of everyone here, find us.We’ve been crashing for days, or has it been years.Find us, beneath the shadow of this yearning mountain, crying here.We’ve been sick with sour longings, and the jangling of fears.Our spirits rise up in the dark, because they hear,Doves in cottonwoods calling forth the sun.We struggled with […]
Awakening – Sep. 25, 2020
“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking […]
They Can Be Like a Sun – July 24, 2020
They can be like a sun, words. They can do for the heartwhat light canfor a field. –St. John of the Cross, Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, trans. Daniel Ladinsky, p. 324
