The Pattern Within
A young missionary in a church out west, I had my first real job, and my first family away from home. At the tail end of my two year stint, deep in the process of ordination, I was seminary bound. A colt kicking in the stalls, ready to run, I was pregnant with grand ideals about how […]
Exploring the Dark to Become Light
It takes discipline for me to be visible in community. Valuing privacy, I’ve always liked to hang out in the back — in the shadows, perhaps — observing, taking it all in, revealing little of my interior self. A few years ago, I began a meditation practice where I learn to be present to myself, as […]
Stay Awake!
Advent celebrates the journey inward, a yearly pilgrimage into darkness and waiting, away from bright lights and busyness, far from words and work to be done. One year, after the edge of a hurricane scoured the East coast, we took our sleeping bags down to a dock and watched the Leonid meteor shower on a […]
Waiting Is a Window – July 10, 2020
“Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes… It is the experience of recovering balance when catapulted from one’s place. It is the quiet forming of a pattern of recollection in which there is called into focus the fragmentary values from myriad encounters of many kinds in a lifetime of living. It is to watch […]
