March 4, 2024 “Take up your cross and follow me.” Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 16:24 On this twentieth day of Lent, halfway through the Lenten season, this invitation from Jesus to his followers feels appropriate. I admit, though, that this quotation is not in my collection or stuck on anything anywhere in my house. ItContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Twenty: Jesus of Nazareth”
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Lenten Day Thirteen: Mary Oliver
February 26, 2024 It is a serious thing just to be aliveon this fresh morningin the broken world. ~ Mary Oliver On this thirteen day of Lent, I stop to ponder why these particular lines from Mary Oliver’s poem, “Invitation,” touched me so much that I jotted them down and stuck them on my mirror. ContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Thirteen: Mary Oliver”
Lenten Day Eleven: Dag Hammarskjöld
“For all that has been, thank you. For all that is to come, yes!” ~ Dag Hammarskjöld On this eleventh day of Lent, I face this quotation once again and feel my resistance to it. I admit that this particular quotation has been on my mirror, off my mirror, on my mirror, off my mirror,ContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Eleven: Dag Hammarskjöld “
Lenten Day Eight: John McQuiston
February 21, 2024 “There must be time within which we neither speak nor listen, but simply are.” John McQuiston, author of Always We Begin Again. On this eight day of Lent, this quotation reminds me of a blog I read just yesterday entitled Lenten Overload, by my friend Nancy Agneberg (https://livingonlifeslabyrinth.com/2024/02/20/lenten-overload/). For those of usContinueContinue reading “Lenten Day Eight: John McQuiston”
A Different Perspective
October 24, 2023 When the entire world seems to be crumbling apart, perhaps what we need to practice is simply a different perspective, a turn of our lens. When we can slow down enough to become observant; when we choose to listen to what beckons; when we pay attention to what has been trying toContinueContinue reading “A Different Perspective”
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: Bearing Witness
March 11, 2022 The Table You know these voices,if you have ears to hear.They are legion, whispering(or shouting) within youdesperate to be noticed,coming from all cornersof your life, east and west,north and south, from infancy,to old age, and all the seasonsin between,soloists tugging atyour sleeve for attention.You wonder why they botheryou and what they wantwhileContinueContinue reading “A Way to Be: Bearing Witness”
A Way to Be
March 2, 2022 In the Christian tradition, today, Ash Wednesday, marks the beginning of the six-week period called Lent and is a day to ponder our own mortality. Considering the last two years of perpetual Lent co-existing with the pandemic, it seems sometimes that pondering our own mortality is all we have been doing. AndContinueContinue reading “A Way to Be”
Thin Place
February 9, 2022 In Celtic Spirituality, there is an understanding that certain places become the meeting ground between heaven and earth, the “holy ground” of Moses before the burning bush. Such spaces are called “thin places” because the division between the holy and the ordinary disappears and the time spent there usually is fleeting. InContinueContinue reading “Thin Place”
Sacred Cycles
Nov. 17, 2021 I have been extremely fortunate this fall to see so much colorful foliage. Here in the southern states, the leaves typically dry up, turn brown, and tumble away, but this year, perhaps due to all the summer rain, they transformed themselves into muted reds and vibrant yellows. In New Hampshire, the autumnContinueContinue reading “Sacred Cycles”
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