Oppositions – May 18, 2022
“An authentic life is a life that is aware of and willing to engage its own oppositions, and honorably inhabits that threshold where the light and darkness, the masculine and feminine and all the beginnings and endings of one’s life engage. Sometimes, people who are very vociferous and moralistic are people who have erased the […]
Love is the Threshold – Apr. 27, 2021
“Love is anything but sentimental. In fact, it is the most real and creative form of human presence. Love is the threshold where divine and human presence ebb and flow into each other.” -John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Fragments – Jan. 8, 2020
And so we take the ragged fragmentsthe patches of darknessthat give shape to the light;the scraps of desiresunslaked or realized;the memories of spaces of blessing,of pain.….And so we lay them at the threshold, God:bid you hold them, bless them, use them;ask you tend them, mend them,transform themto keep us warm,make us whole,and send us forth. […]
Twilight’s Turning – Jan. 6, 2020
Sitting on my thresholdat twilight’s turning,door open,arms around my knees,wind through the entryway hereI knowthis is what I want:not to be goodbut to be whole. –Jan Richardson, Night Visions
