Featured: The dissolution of a dream ...
A big, beautiful spider has set up her home outside my kitchen window. I have grown attached to her presence and greet her each morning, watching her work or sleep while I take my first few sips of coffee. For those who hate spiders, I see you. But she is where she belongs (outside) and […]
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. (Mahatma Gandhi)
I'm in this kind of mode right now: http://www.onbeing.org/blog/the-spiritual-art-of-saying-no/6718 So brilliant.
"I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can […]
Something to ponder this morning ... What if the church helped people become the kind of people who: Loved one another? Forgave one another? Prayed for one another? Bore one another's burdens? Were devoted to one another? Regarded one another as more important than oneself? Did not speak against one another? Did not judge one […]
I am so shocked and saddened by the death of 9 saints from a South Carolina church. Such hatred. Such sadness. Such a waste of beautiful human life. I listened to the relatives of these victims speak at the bond hearing for the young murderer. And I stood at attention in my kitchen as I […]
Some people I love are burying their most precious loved ones today. I don't have words for the sadness. Sometimes poems speak for my broken heart. This one does: "And this is the consolation - that the world doesn't end, that the world one day opens up into something better, and that we one day […]
