Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Inspired by recent ski races, upcoming Olympic games, and today’s Superbowl Sunday, we discussed how we might pray during competitions or periods of conflict, stress, and struggle. We discussed forms of prayer or reflection that might center us at these times: For Preparation (becoming focused and ready to engage in the experience) For Support (intercession[…]
Inspired by a collection of scriptures on triumph and defeat, athletic strength and resilience, running the race, being present to the challenges of life and faith. Classic poets’ commentaries on challenges, in honor of the Superbowl. Excerpted from an article by Barbara Mossberg, HuffPost. A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful[…]
Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away. — attributed to Rumi Lord, the demons still are thriving in the gray cells of the mind: tyrant voices, shrill and driving, twisted thoughts that grip and[…]
For My People (excerpt) — Margaret Walker For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding, trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people, all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations; Let a new earth[…]
Pink Moon — the Pond (excerpt) — Mary Oliver … You walk down to the shore. Your coming stills them, but little by little the silence lifts until song is everywhere and your soul rises from your bones and strides out over the water. It is a crazy thing to do — for no one[…]
