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The Angel and The Girl Are Met
Today’s Advent poem from Education for Justice is by Edwin Muir. The angel and the girl are met Earth was the only meeting place. For the embodied never yet Travelled beyond the shore of space. The eternal spirits in freedom go. See, they have… Continue Reading “The Angel and The Girl Are Met”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light
Here we are on December 1st: the first day of Advent and 24 days till Christmas. If you saw any postings here during Lent, you would have seen some poetry that I found on the educationfor justice.org website. There is a similar collection entitled… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light”
A Prayer of Gratitude
O Great Spirit, I awake to another sun, grateful for gifts bestowed, granted one by one. – Twylah Nitsch, Seneca Medicine Woman
Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite
We are more infinite than we suppose. You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonders forever. – Jacque Yves Cousteau
Weekly Photo Challenge: Golden Hour
It is said that the best times to photograph landscape is during the “golden hour”, that magical time near dawn or dusk when the sun’s light adds a special magical light to all. The bright sunlight that we experience later in the day can… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Golden Hour”
The Dawn Has Come
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore
More on Listening
Learning to listen with the heart moves us from the role of observers and enables us to become participants with the Creator in a world full of grace and possibility. – Elizabeth Canham, Heart Whispers
What is Prayer?
Prayer is not doing, but being. It is not words but the beyond-words experience of coming into the presence of something much greater than oneself. It is an invitation to recognize holiness, and to utter simple words–“Holy, Holy, Holy”–in response. Attentiveness is all; I… Continue Reading “What is Prayer?”
More on Beauty
Somewhere between 551 and 491 BCE, Confucius observed the same thing that we might say today: Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius
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