Solace Blessing – Mar. 24, 2022
That’s it.That’s all this blessingknows how to do: Shine your shoes.Fill your refrigerator.Water your plants.Make some soup. All the thingsyou cannot thinkto do yourselfwhen the world has come apart,when nothingwill be normalagain. …. –Jan Richardson, from “Solace Blessing“, The Cure for Sorrow, p. 77
Please – Mar. 17, 2022
We are at the Nile’s end. We are carrying particles From every continent, creature, and age. It has been raining on the plainsOf our vision for millions of years. And our senses are so muddy compared to Yours—dear God, But I only hear these words from YouWhere we are all trying to embrace the Clear Sky-Ocean, […]
When Death Comes – Mar. 14, 2022
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When It’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself […]
Hearing God – Mar. 8, 2022
“The loud, boisterous noises of the world make us deaf to the soft, gentle, and loving voice of God. A Christian leader is called to help people hear that voice and so be comforted and consoled.” –Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
