The Promise of New Beginnings
Sometimes the light of the new day feels faint like the late December sun rising over Chesterman Beach in Tofino (above). There is mist around us, we can’t quite make out the shape of the future, but we place our hopes in the faint glow making its way upward across the sky. While I have some mixed […]
The Fire of Endings
We had a lot of rain while up in Canada, but one evening was particularly beautiful and the world was on fire for a brief window of time. We often think of endings as only sad, but I find there is a beauty to them as well. Against the fierce edges of life, things […]
Returning
I am back from my trip to Tofino, it takes about 9 hours to travel back between the 3-hour drive to the ferry, waiting for the ferry, the 2-hour ferry ride, the 1-hour wait at the border and then another 2 hours home. But it is so worth it because Tofino feels wild and remote. […]
Room for Christ
It is no use saying that we are born two thousand years too late to give room to Christ. Nor will those who live at the end of the world have been born too late. Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts. But now it is with the voice of our contemporaries […]
Winter Solstice
I discovered this wonderful reflection by Ron Rolheiser at Antony’s blog: Coming to the Quiet. During my last years of seminary training, I attended a series of lectures given by a prominent Polish psychologist, Casmir Dabrowski, teaching at the time at the University of Alberta. He had written a number of books around a concept he called “positive disintegration.” […]
Carving
**I added some information below on the tools I used for the stamp carving I have been really captivated by rubber stamp carving these days. Bette got me started and now I keep thinking of things I want to carve. I love making a design and then carving away the excess until only the form […]
Things I Love (Part 2) and True Confessions of a Cover Girl
What fun that so many of you jumped in on the “Things I Love” meme, I had as much fun reading yours as I did writing mine! Here are those who participated (click on their names to go read a celebration of gratitude!): A for Kayce at Diamonds in the Sky with Lucy B for Antony at […]