I don’t know how it is for you, but I find that neighbors can live in proximate anonymity. Like trees growing in a stand of woods, we are privy to each others movements, yet strangers to each others private worlds.
O, there is the occasional exchange of pleasantries on the way to get the newspaper, to [...]
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. –Mother Teresa
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. –Mother Teresa
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. –Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success, I ask [...]
…from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn us back to dust, and say, “Turn back, you mortals.” For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night. You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in [...]
I saw Jesus last night.
He was sitting
by the Jenga blocks on the floor
playing with a baby-
the daughter of an unwed teenage mother.
I have never seen the father,
but young mom has her hands full
with two children under
the age of two.
I saw Jesus
making time for this baby
holding the baby
playing with the baby.
I saw Jesus caring for
the [...]
The Eucharist is the sacrament of unity. It makes us into one body. The apostle Paul writes, “As there is one loaf, so we, although there are many of us, are one single body, for we all share in the one loaf” (1 Corinthians 10:17).
The presence of Jesus among us and in the gifts of [...]
Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training…. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave…. 1 Corinthians 9:25-27
Lent begins next week. Easter is early this year–March 23 in Western Christianity. Thinking [...]
What is this place where we are meeting? Only a house, the earth its floor,
walls and a roof sheltering people, windows for light, an open door.
Yet it becomes a body that lives when we are gathered here,
and know our God is near.
Huub Oosterhuis, Zomaar een dak boven wat hoofden, 1968
(from Hymnal: A Worship Book)
Gathering…
in [...]
Advent 1 Meditation
Almighty God, give all of us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in [...]
a misty dusk settles
over shiny ochre leaves
in my yard
the annual raking ritual
has cleared all but a few
to their autumnal bed…
to compost
.
the shrowded
late November afternoon light
shimmers against silhouetted tree
branches stripped
of their seasonal hue
.
the still, musty air
holds a truth
whispered by leaves
fallen on loamy soil
.
what is this mystical truth?
.
letting go
of what has been,
life
this year
embracing
beautiful decay,
that which is to come…
is good
.
the moment is…
mysterious,
peaceful
—-
what mystery
is uncovered by this [...]
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
–Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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