Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to community and creation!
Advent calls us, this week, to anticipate and seek JOY. Is this an emotion — or experience — that we are capable of growing and nurturing through spiritual practice? Is it an inner state of being or a way of engaging with the external world? Perhaps both are true. This reflection offers different perspectives, but […]
Peace begins inside us, then in our relationships, our communities, and our world. All of it relies on connection to something greater than ourselves: Godself. If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in […]
Contemplating Thanksgiving— receiving and giving support — as themes from Matthew 25 about separating goats from sheep and “doing unto others.” When do you need to hold out your hands and open your arms and accept the grace available to you, and when may you be a tangible source of grace for others? What does […]
Meditation from this week’s texts: grace in unexpected times and places — manna in the desert and overturning the social order when ‘the last shall be first’ The Last Shall Be First Love someone who doesn’t deserve it. — Wendell Berry Maybe God (or Goodness or Good Orderly Direction or Gift of Desperation) is in […]
Come into Animal Presence — Denise Levertov Come into animal presence. No man is so guileless as the serpent. The lonely white rabbit on the roof is a star twitching its ears at the rain. The llama intricately folding its hind legs to be seated not disdains but mildly disregards human approval. What joy when […]
