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 […]

Did I Tell You? – May 22, 2020

“And did I tell you the challenge of being human — the challenge of balancing your worlds — the need to achieve and the need to nurture — the need to be strong and the need to be tender — the need to meet the test that life brings yet always keep love at the […]