Lenten Links
A wonderful poem about threshold space written by Rich at Pilgrim Path: Ash Wednesday On this February morning, not fully winter, not quite spring, the palest lemonade-colored sun rises weakly over the lake. A still fog sits over the water, trapping a ship in time just as the frozen waters anchor it in place. A […]
Baptismal Waters
As I walked into the woods on my Ash Wednesday retreat last week I was dazzled by droplets of water shimmering all around me. Here I was entering the Lenten desert and everything in creation sang to me of viriditas, or the greening power of God. Life was exploding forth before me in this damp forest, […]
Ocean of Longing
Last Wednesday I went to the Hood Canal to check out a place for our Awakening the Creative Spirit program we are planning to offer in a weeklong intensive form (more info on this to come, dates are Nov 11-18, 2007). I decided to make the trip into a mini-retreat and spend the night in the area. Tune […]
Digging God Out Again
There’s a really deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there, too. But more often stones and grit block the well, and God is buried beneath. Then (God) must be dug out again. -Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life Lent is often associated with the desert, for good reason. The desert […]
Ash Wednesday
Today we leave ordinary time to enter into the journey of Lent through the desert. The desert is that uncharted terrain beyond the edges of our seemingly secure and structured world, where things begin to crack. We begin this desert journey marked with ashes, the sign of our mortality. There is wisdom in these ashes. […]
Forty Early Mornings
A New Moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryo forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness. -Rumi Tonight is the New Moon and Wednesday begins the season of Lent with Ash Wednesday. I am feeling especially reflective this weekend, listening for what my spirit needs during this holy season ahead. What will those forty early mornings do for my gradually growing wholeness? What possibilities lie dormant in the […]
Burning With Love For All of Creation
I wrote a few days ago about discovering the theologian Andrew Linzey in an article I was reading. I was so thrilled to discover someone writing seriously about the place of animals in Christian tradition and spiritual practice that I ordered three of his books: Animal Gospel, Animal Theology, and Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care […]