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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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”
The Return Trip
February 2, 2022 Counting Coats “If you have two coats, give one to someone who doesn’t have any.”” Luke 3:11 I consider the number of coatsI own. More than two.Seven? Eight? Ten?Not all coats, of course.Some are jacketsa pink fleecea purple raincoat.In the checkout lanethe woman in a wind-thinblue sweaterfumbles with food stampsto pay forContinueContinue reading “The Return Trip”
Wood Walking
Jan. 28, 2022 As the Covid viruses rage and mutate while people the world over tire of wearing masks, rebel against distancing, and refuse to concern themselves with others’ safety, I find myself dismayed by humanity’s loss of the Golden Rule, and I head to the woods. I am not the first to do soContinueContinue reading “Wood Walking”
Don’t Let the Light Go Out
January 6, 2022 “Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.” Walt Whitman In the Christian tradition, January 6 marks the Feast of the Epiphany, the moment that the Christ-Child was recognized by those beyond his small world and so made universal. Astrologers, weContinueContinue reading “Don’t Let the Light Go Out”
O Antiphons ~ King of Nations
O King of Nations, whom all the peoples desire, you are the cornerstone which makes all one. O come and deliver the creature you fashioned from the dust of the earth. Three days before the birth of the Light, in the O Antiphons, the ancient prayer-song of waiting and expectation, the sixth title given toContinueContinue reading “O Antiphons ~ King of Nations”
O Antiphons ~ Radiant Dawn
O Radiant Dawn, you are the splendor of eternal light and the sun of justice. O come and shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death. Four days before the birth of the Light, on this Winter Solstice, in the O Antiphons, the ancient prayer-song of waiting and expectation, the fifthContinueContinue reading “O Antiphons ~ Radiant Dawn”
O Antiphons ~ Root of Jesse
O Root of Jesse, you have been raised up as a sign for all peoples; kings fall silent before you; nations bow down and worship you. O come to deliver us and do not delay. In the O Antiphons, the ancient prayer-song of waiting and expectation, the third title given to the Christ (or Light,ContinueContinue reading “O Antiphons ~ Root of Jesse”
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