meditation

Meditations on Carrying Burdens and Putting Them Down

Burden — Judith McCombs I am carrying the bowl where she fed, bitter herbs, salt, honey, the taste of her life. I am carrying the cloth where she lay, her dark hair veining the white, imprint & pain washed away, the binding, the seams folded shut. I am carrying what is left, her voice in […]

Meditations on “Spirit”

Advocate to be with you forever. … the Spirit … abides with you … will be in you … because I live, you also will live … I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. — excerpts from Gospel of John 14 Interrelationship — Thich Nhat Hanh You are me, […]

Meditation: drink from the well — wonder & curiosity

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more […]

Meditations: immersing ourselves in wild creative energy of life & Spirit

As Kingfishers Catch Fire — Gerard Manley Hopkins ~~ As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that […]

Meditations: ashes, sand & stones ~ lessons from the wilderness

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day. ― Scott Hastie In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. ― Rachel Carson Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a […]

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