Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to community and creation!
SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX11yw6YL1w&feature=youtu.be QUOTE: Cormac McCarthy: All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. POEM: Tahar Ben Jelloun. The Rising of the Ashes [Before] – excerpt: I pace the abyss. I descend. I am suspended. The ashes still […]
This Father’s Day I want to recognize the kind, patient, sensitive, and caring men who serve as father figures and role models in our children’s lives. They are uncles, teachers, caregivers, cooks, drivers, security guards, and coaches. They are there every day in every way. They gently guide our children through their days, offering advice […]
If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.― Shauna Niequist If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. — Michael Enzi I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the […]
Shattered Whole Tonight both chandelier and sconceIlluminate a space where darkness wasOur memory of shattered glassDissolves in strengthEach shard incising powerOf our soulsOur sanctuary, blessed byLight withinInhabits empty pews andRadiates through wallsAnd windowsSpreading signs of victoryOur triumph of survivalWith G-d’s loveAll glowing magnitude Our willingnessTonight we are that lightTonight all that was fractured, shatteredLives in majesty […]
Bodhisattva Prayer for Humanity May I be a guard for those who need protection A guide for those on the path A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood May I be a lamp in the darkness A resting place for the weary A healing medicine for all who […]
