Incoming – God’s Hope in Our Tedium
“In the midst of our daily tedium, let us learn to see the incoming God.
And let us be glad.”
Mercy – The Dare of Jesus
Sacrifice = the security of obedience to prescribed norms, standards, requirements. Mercy = the risk of disobeying in favor of love. We prefer the former. Jesus preferred the latter.
Soul care or self-pity?
Perhaps at the root of our longing is simply poor discernment of the needs of our own soul.
________ One: a prayer
Ineffable One, there is a haze of wanton disregard fogging the window to my soul; a fog of discontent that swirls around my deepest knowing; an arrogant knowing where, in it’s place, I need unknowing. Holy One, relieve me of foolish trust in my ability to live in perfection. Let loose the hounds of irreducible …
The changing face of prayer
There is a state of being available to all persons everywhere that is readily found in that which most thrills the soul.
Being found again in a poem
Music, writing, and poetry have always been the primary means by which I engage the Holy. More correctly, it is God’s way of assuring access to me, to my deepest parts. Perhaps it is the same for you?
Easter still comes
May we be courageous enough to be vessels of grace and hope through and into which Easter still comes.
the skies, now silent and spent
On this day, many years ago, an ominous silence filled the world…
A Spirituality for My Soul’s Middle-Ground
I’m finding my soul’s middle ground. I bellow the fire of my spirit by smooring the fire in the hearth.
My big prayer experiment, continued
“The mysterious geography of prayer must begin in the cracks and fissures of the human spirit before it gets the added benefit of the babbling brook heard just outside the monastery gates.”