Yesterday we had warnings of a winter storm coming here to Seattle, but then nothing happened. This morning, however, I awoke to a snowy landscape and began my wanderings. Three quiet hours of delight as I took in the beauty of the world transformed and listened to the voice of everything singing to me, making itself heard, as the poet says [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Holy Darkness (5)
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In deep nights I dig for you like treasure. For all I have seen that clutters the surface of my world is poor and paltry substitute for the beauty of you that has not happened yet. -Rilke, from Book of Hours: Love Poems to God ** For the season of Advent I am posting a [...]
Holy Darkness (4)
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Sweet Darkness When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your [...]
Holy Darkness (3)
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Whom should I turn to, if not the one whose darkness is darker than night, the only one who keeps vigil with no candle, and is not afraid— the deep one, whose being I trust, for it breaks through the earth into trees and rises, when I bow my head, faint as a fragrance from [...]
Holy Darkness (2)
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I know that I love the day, The sun on the mountain, the Pacific Shiny and accomplishing itself in breakers, But I know I live half alive in the world, I know half my life belongs to the wild darkness. -Galway Kinnell ** For the season of Advent I am posting a reflection each Sunday [...]
Offerings and Delights
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My dear and talented friend lucy over at Diamonds in the Sky with Lucy is releasing her very first zine on the theme of Grace Unbound and she now has copies in stock. Lucy describes it as a creative combination of words and image. Containing original works and over 50 stunning photos by amazing photographer, Bill [...]
Holy Darkness (1)
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The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the LORD and a day of vindication [...]
Poetry Party winner and other updates
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Another stunningly beautiful array of poems offered to this week's Poetry Party. The winner of the random drawing for a copy of my zine Praying with the Elements is Deb Vaughn at An Unfinished Symphony. Deb, please send me your snail mail address and that will be sent right out to you. Thank you to everyone who [...]
The Way (5)
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The Journey Above the mountains the Geese turn into the light again Painting their black silhouettes on an open sky. Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. Sometimes it takes a great sky to find that small, bright and indescribable wedge of [...]
The Way (4)
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Journey The mouth of the river may be beautiful. It doesn't remember the womb of its beginning. It doesn't look back to where it's been or wonder who ahead of it polished the rough stones. It is following the way in its fullness, now like satin, now cresting, waters meeting, kindred to travel gathered together, [...]
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