There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world. ― Oscar Hammerstein II “If I can stop one heart from breaking” — Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease […]
Meditation on seeing and blindness: themes from Mark. To what are you called to bear witness? When and how have you been blind in your life, and what or who opened your eyes?
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I’m just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren’t fully open yet. — Olivia Thirlby Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind … — William Shakespeare Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different […]
Ash Wednesday reflection
If you have become ash, Then wait, you become a rose again. And do not remember how often you have become ash, But how often you were reborn in ashes to a new rose. ~ Rumi I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. […]
Ash Wednesday Provocation (day 1 of Lent)
Word for DAY 1 (Ash Wednesday) of Lent: WASTED AWAY. This phrase comes from Psalm 32: 1-5, from the Narrative Lectionary associated with the first day of Lent. Throughout Lent, we will post words from each week’s scripture and music videos that address the themes raised by those phrases (lifted from the context of the […]
MEDITATIONS on SEEDS & PARABLES
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. —Aeschylus The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is, and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed […]