Help Me Listen – Apr. 14, 2021
O holy One,I hear and say so many words,yet yours is the word I need.Speak now,and help me listen,and if what I hear is silence,let it quiet me,let it disturb me,let it touch my need,let it break my pride,let it shrink my certainties,let it enlarge my wonder. –Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace
Breathless with Wonder
I grew up in Southern California, the land of eternal sunshine. So even after living in Washington, DC for over thirty years, whenever I see those nearly weightless, shining crystals floating through the cold, winter air, I get a little breathless. I stare at the magical beauty of fat, white flakes flying through a night […]
Wonder & Awe – Sept. 24, 2019
“Our intellect mediates wonder, every scientist knows this; our intuition mediates awe, every artist knows this.” –Brother Thomas, This is the Day
Becoming Clear – Aug. 7, 2019
“Take time to gaze in wonder at Nature, the flight of a bird, a flower in bloom, the dry leaf crumbling to dust, the flow of a river, the rising of the moon, a silhouette of a mountain against the sky. And as you do this the hard, protective shell around your heart will soften […]
