February 20, 2024 “We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, ‘Why me?’ unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.” Lakshmana On this seventh day of Lent, I’m not quite sure how this quotation came my way. As best I can discover, Lakshmana is a character inContinueContinue reading “Lent Day Seven: Lakshmana”
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Lent Day 3: The Buddha
February 16, 2024 “Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.” The Buddha On this third day of Lent, the quotation that I sit with comes from Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as The Buddha (‘the Awakened’), who was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher living in South Asia during the 6th or 5th centuryContinueContinue reading “Lent Day 3: The Buddha”
Lent Day Two: Anonymous
February 15, 2024 “Let a need to love replace my need to understand.” From The Cloud of Unknowing On this second day of Lent, the quotation that I sit with comes from the book Where Only Love Can Go: A Journey of the Soul into The Cloud of Unknowing (quite a title!). The introduction explains,ContinueContinue reading “Lent Day Two: Anonymous”
Lent Day One: Anthony De Mello
February 14, 2024 “Both what you run away from—and yearn for—is in you.” Anthony De Mello, Society of Jesus I begin these Lenten day blogs with a quotation from Fr. Anthony de Mello that seemed to peg me. I sometimes wonder if we really are as complex as we imagine we are, or if, instead, weContinueContinue reading “Lent Day One: Anthony De Mello”
Sifting Ashes ~ A Lenten Poem
Feb. 13, 2024 Sifting Ashes What would you doif you were invitedto enter your heartin this seasonof self-honesty?If you were encouragedto leave reason and judgmentbehind and insteadask grace to be yourcompanion?Would you say yes?Would you accept the flashlightoffered when you crossedthe threshold, the decoder ringneeded to deciphereach message that begsrevelation?Could you look?Once inside, would youContinueContinue reading “Sifting Ashes ~ A Lenten Poem”
From Pelagius to David Bowie
Feb 12, 2024 Note: Second attempt to email this post. “Write down with your own hand on paper what God has written with his hand on the human heart.” Pelagius For Christmas this past year, I gave my daughter a stack of notecards, each one inscribed with a quotation that had drifted across my path fromContinueContinue reading “From Pelagius to David Bowie”
From Pelagius to David Bowie
February 11, 2024 “Write down with your own hand on paper what God has written with his hand on the human heart.” Pelagius For Christmas this past year, I gave my daughter a stack of notecards, each one inscribed with a quotation that had drifted across my path from the Universe and had gifted me. ContinueContinue reading “From Pelagius to David Bowie”
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”
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