Thursday, Advent Week 2: Sustain The Psalms of Advent, Dec. 8, 2022 Please feel free to light a candle and join me in our reflection on our next Psalm of Advent, Psalm 146, as we receive a vibrant psalm of praise for the Holy One. Verses 5-10 are designated for worship, meditation, and prayer, butContinueContinue reading “Thursday, Advent Week 2: Sustains”
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Monday, Advent 1: Escape
The Psalms of Advent, Nov. 28, 2022 Please light a candle if you wish and join me in today’s meditation on the psalms designated for the four weeks of the Advent Season. How do I select these psalms? I am not pulling them out of the air, I promise. They are found in a formalizedContinueContinue reading “Monday, Advent 1: Escape”
Sunday, Advent 1: Peace
The Psalms of Advent I invite you to light a candle and join me on this first Sunday of Advent, as we wait with the psalms and listen for a word to guide us during this dark season of winter. We begin with the psalm appointed for today, Psalm 122, described as a “pilgrimage song,”ContinueContinue reading “Sunday, Advent 1: Peace”
Flint Creek in Autumn
October 16, 2022 For as long as I can remember, Autumn has been a melancholy/bittersweet season for me. Amidst the splendor of the brilliant hues of the dying leaves, there is a sense of time gone by, a memory of mourning something, or someone, that cannot be reclaimed. Yet Autumn also offers each of usContinueContinue reading “Flint Creek in Autumn”
A Pail of Cherries
August 9, 2022 Some years back, my daughter authored a “good news” blog which, I believe, was called “Silver Linings.” She spent hours culling different news sources in search of something positive, and, inevitably, she would indeed find an uplifting story and post it. Her purpose was to remind her readers that good things doContinueContinue reading “A Pail of Cherries”
Foreign Land
July 11, 2022 Apologies to those who follow this blog for my rather lengthy hiatus these past few months. I took some time away to discern whether and how to continue publishing a blog. During that time, so much changed here in the States that, at first, I couldn’t summon the energy to write. AllContinueContinue reading “Foreign Land”
In Between ~ Welcome 4
April 16, 2022 Thank you to those of you who have followed my prayer and spiritual reflections this Lenten Season. I have tried—and continue to try—the three basic tenets of Zen Peacemaking: the not knowing what will happen at any point in time; the bearing witness to all the different feelings (“parts”) of us withoutContinueContinue reading “In Between ~ Welcome 4”
Welcome, Welcome ~2
April 2, 2022 Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. This poem, The Second Coming, wasContinueContinue reading “Welcome, Welcome ~2”
Welcome, Welcome
March 28, 2022 If you have never wanted to control a person or fix a situation, if you have never wanted to step in and take over because you knew your way was best, if you have never tossed and turned in the night because of worry, then raise your hand. That’s what I thought. ContinueContinue reading “Welcome, Welcome”
A Way to Be: Taking Action
March 18, 2022 “Fate of Hundreds Unknown: Missiles Hit City in Ukraine’s West” “13 Year Old Boy Drives Truck into Van, Killing Nine People in Texas” “Powerful Storms Could Bring Tornadoes To the Southeast (USA)” “An International Agency Warns About a Global Energy Crisis” “If you know how to make good use of the mud,ContinueContinue reading “A Way to Be: Taking Action”
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