Sword of Subtraction
A friend asked me to ponder the question, “What is shaping me?” Then put it another way, “What does a resurrection-shaped life look like?” I find these questions difficult because I realize so much is beyond my control. More and more, I am in new, often unwelcome, territory. Beloved ones die. Health issues increase. Years of comfortable ways of connecting in […]
Holiness – May 11, 2023
“Holiness is not an achievement; it is a Grace. A Grace called Awareness, a grace called Looking, Observing, Understanding. If you would only switch on the light of awareness and observe yourself and everything around you throughout the day… clearly, exactly as it is without the slightest distortion or addition, and if you observed this […]
In Blackwater Woods – Apr. 13, 2023
Look, the treesare turningtheir own bodiesinto pillars of lightare giving off the richfragrance of cinnamonand fulfillment the long tapersof cattailsare bursting and floating away overthe blue shoulders of the ponds,and every pond,no matter what itsname is, is nameless now.Every yeareverythingI have ever learned in my lifetimeleads back to this: the firesand the black river of […]
Time to Thrive – Mar. 15, 2023
“We shall be known by the company we keepby the ones who circle round to tend these fires We shall be known by the ones who sow and reapthe seeds of change alive from deep within the earth It is time now.It is time now that we thrive.It is time we lead ourselves into the […]
