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Mystery
Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans. – Mahmûd Shabistarî,
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?”
Finding the Treasure
Finding the treasure is only the beginning of the search. -Henri Nouwen, from The Inner Voice of Love
Have We Come Far Enough to Find God?
It could be that God has not absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of… Continue Reading “Have We Come Far Enough to Find God?”
Easter Friday – At the Edge
Today’s Easter Poem from Education for Justice is by the wonderful Irish poet John O’Donohue. At the Edge Sometimes, behind the lines Of words giving voice to the blue wind That blows across the amber fields Of your years, whispering the hungers Your dignity… Continue Reading “Easter Friday – At the Edge”
Easter Thursday- What to Remember When Waking
Today’s Easter Poem is by one of my favorite poets, David Whyte. I heard him recently at the Religious Education Congress in Southern California. It is wonderful just to hear him recite poetry. What a wonderful experience! What to Remember When Waking In that… Continue Reading “Easter Thursday- What to Remember When Waking”
The Avowal
Today’s Lenten poem from Education for Justice is by Denise Levertov. The Avowal As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would I learn to attain freefall, and float… Continue Reading “The Avowal”
A Psalm of Life
Today’s Lenten poem from Education for Justice is by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A Psalm of Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life… Continue Reading “A Psalm of Life”
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