21 Dec, 2020
When the Holy Child is born into our hearts There is a rain of stars A rushing of angels A blaze of candles This God burst into our lives. Love is running through the streets. ~ "Godburst" by Ann Weems Traditionally, the last week in Advent is...
14 Dec, 2020
In the Gospel of John, known for its mystical language, John the Baptist describes the One who is coming as Light, as one who is at God’s side. I understand it to mean that Jesus was so connected to the Divine as to be filled with the Light and...
07 Dec, 2020
This week I discovered that the story of Gabriel's visit to Zechariah and his subsequent loss of speech in Luke 1, is not in any lectionary cycle, and hardly any authors talk about it. The story of Zechariah getting his voice back when he names...
30 Nov, 2020
To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim. (Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening ) Ready or not, here we are at the...
23 Nov, 2020
Jewish tradition tells us that healing the world is an imperative - it is our calling, our purpose even, to collect the shards of light from all over and within creation, and piece it back together little by little. This is a difficult concept...
16 Nov, 2020
Richard Rohr teaches, “we don’t seek spiritual awareness to help escape the pain of the world, but to gain the capacity to feel the pain and live in solidarity with it.” We’d all like to escape the pain and suffering in life. And, I suspect...
09 Nov, 2020
“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” ~Christine Caine From December 1987 through June of 1988, about 7 months, renowned priest, writer and theologian Henri Nouwen went through a...
27 Oct, 2020
In a climate where we experience four seasons, there is a rhythm to the cycles of life reflected yearly in the world around us. This cycle of birth, grown, decline and death offers us balance and wholeness, if we would simply pay attention and...
19 Oct, 2020
Spirituality is inherently relational. We are connected spiritually not only to the Divine Essence, but to one another. How we treat one another and how we listen to one another is not in a different compartment from listening to God. Jesus was...
13 Oct, 2020
We’ve talked about deep listening to ourselves – to our bodies, our emotions and our self-talk. It’s exceedingly helpful to know ourselves well so that when we open ourselves to listen to God, we don’t get psyched out by our egos, our needs and...