Part of Everything – May 27, 2021
“Our task is to drop our hostility and our estrangement from the creation and to begin to rest in it. To connect with it. To give it our friendship. Our work is to nurture creation, and to be nurtured by it. To meet God through it.” –Gordon Cosby, Seized by the Power of a Great […]
Sabbath Grace – Apr. 21, 2021
Six days of work are spentto make a Sunday quietthat Sabbath may return.It comes in unconcern;we cannot earn or buy it.Suppose rest is not sentor comes and goes unknown,the light, unseen, unshown.Suppose the day beginsin wrath at circumstance,or anger at one’s friendsin vain self-innocencefalse to the very light,breaking the sun in half,or anger at oneselfwhose […]
Left to Grace – Apr. 20, 2021
Whatever is foreseen in joymust be lived out from day to day.Vision held open in the darkby our ten thousand days of work.Harvest will fill the barn; for thatthe hand must ache, the face must sweat.And yet no leaf or grain is filledby work of ours; the field is tilledand left to grace. That we […]
Self-care as a Discipline
Several years ago, I was heading into the most important and most stressful work situation I had ever faced. I knew it was coming, so I sat down and made a plan for staying sane: Take a break for exercise every day, even if it means going back to the office late into the night; […]
