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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.― Matsuo Bashô Choices— Tess GallagherI go to the mountain sideof the house to cut saplings,and clear a view to snowon the mountain. But when I look up,saw in hand, I see a nest clutched inthe uppermost branches.I don’t cut that one.I don’t cut the others […]
Is conflict always a bad thing or might it be a chance to grow? What is your response to conflict? How might you move from holy conflict to sacred response: hope, healing, resilience, and reconciliation? — Rev Gail Excerpt from commentary by Chanequa Walker-Barnes: Conflict is not a threat that needs to be prevented or […]
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. ― Madeleine L’Engle, Swiftly Tilting Planet The Meadow (excerpt) — Marie Howe Bedeviled, human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled among […]
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 […]
The spiritual practice of seeking wisdom balanced with the capacity to be foolish in a transformative way … and some reflections on issues facing Veterans, offered from a military chaplain. Wisdom shows up as a desirable quality to be sought and learned through spiritual discipline in the writings of Solomon and in the parable of […]
