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The Garden
The Garden I heard you blooming in the sun’s crescendo, your sepals stretching, petals open in an ecstasy of hue– the overture of Eden. – Nancy Compton Williams
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?”
Where Do You Find Peace?
The Peace of the Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood… Continue Reading “Where Do You Find Peace?”
Drink of the Experience of Spring, While It Is Still Spring
The one who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. – Ling Po
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above
And Mark Twain once said, “Distance lends enchantment to the view.”
In All of Nature We Find God’s Initials
All animals who lift their voices at dawn sing to God. The volcanoes and the clouds and the trees cry to us about God. The whole creation cries to us penetratingly with a great joy about the existence and the beauty and the love… Continue Reading “In All of Nature We Find God’s Initials”
Finding God
In the early evening we see the stars begin to appear as the sun disappears over the horizon. The light of day gives way to the darkness of night. A stillness, a healing quiet comes over the landscape. It’s a moment when some other world… Continue Reading “Finding God”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture
In thinking of culture, it is difficult to not think of food and how it brings us together. Food is our common ground, a universal experience. – James Beard
Wisdom from Walden
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The Feast of Catherine of Siena
Today is the Feast of Saint Catherine of Siena (Dominican Saint, born in 1347). She wrote, “Love transforms one into what one loves.” (Dialogue 60) Reflections: Into whom or what will we be transformed? How would we like to be transformed? What am I doing… Continue Reading “The Feast of Catherine of Siena”
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