OCCASIONAL THOUGHTS
Aging
In a culture that values health and beauty the process of aging can seem like it runs counter to the false gospels of smooth...
Spirituality & Religion
Spirituality sometimes seems more the habitation of mercurial mystery and wild inspiration. Religion, on the other hand, seems...
Invoking Spirit
Turn your spirit inward for a moment.
Find your place in the presence of God.
Allow all that is YOU become a...
Wilderness Sabbath
Snow has fallen for six days in a row. I love the quiescence which seems to come upon the land in this dark time of year. It...
Late!
A harried drive ... too-fast ... away from one obligation … straight on toward another. From being present in one place, to...
breathing amidst the dangerous presence of God...
Often our prayers become confined to only what we have to say to God. But prayer, like an incarnation of our relationship with...
regarding a soulful presence in difficult times...
I think our souls are often like ancient open wood boats that ride the waves of birth and living, and dying and death. Most...
Journeying and Abiding: finding a balance
In our day and culture, we so often tend to think of spirituality in terms of “journey.” Even biblically and out of our Christian...
Raven
RAVEN
(a wisdom story from indigenous coastal peoples from north-western parts of North America)
A long time ago Raven...
Tree
Tiny sprout,
breaking through the smooth firmness of a seed’s protective shell.
Fragile seedling,
gasping...