Stop by Patheos for my latest reflection: “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” –Wallace Stevens “What is summer's sweetness / but an invitation to respond?” —Lynn Ungar My husband and my work schedules run on the academic year which means that we work quite hard from fall through spring, but then summer opens [...]
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The Spiritual Practice of Being Uncomfortable
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My latest Seasons of the Soul column at Patheos: Love wants to reach out and manhandle us, Break all our teacup talk of God. If you had the courage and Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights, He would just drag you around the room By your hair, Ripping from your grip all those [...]
Mid-Way through Lent: Beginning Again
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My latest Seasons of the Soul column at Patheos: In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself astray in a dark wood where the straight road had been lost sight of. –Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy We have just passed the midpoint of our Lenten journey through the desert. This is [...]
Entering the Season of Blossoming
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Stop by my latest Seasons of the Soul column at Patheos for a reflection on entering this season of blossoming: For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the dove is heard in [...]
Stirring in the Belly: Listening for New Life
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My latest Seasons of the Soul column for Patheos is now available here: The most important events make no stir on their first taking place, nor indeed in their effects directly. They seem hedged about by secrecy. It is concussion, or the rushing together of air to fill a vacuum, which makes a noise. The [...]
Advent Practices: Considering Our Earthiness (Week Four)
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This is the fourth reflection in a weely series I am writing for Patheos on practices for Advent to nurture our intimacy with creation: When despair for the world grows in me . . . I come into the peace of wild things . . . I rest in the grace of the world, and am [...]
Advent Practices: Water's Wisdom (Week Three)
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This is the third reflection in a weely series I am writing for Patheos on practices for Advent to nurture our intimacy with creation: The bass and trout hiding in the deep pools of the river are canonized by their beauty and their strength. The lakes hidden among the hills are saints, and the sea too [...]
Advent Practices: Following the Fire (Week Two)
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This is the second reflection in a weely series I am writing for Patheos on practices for Advent to nurture our intimacy with creation: Every being is praising God The fire has its flame and praises God. The wind blows the flame and praises God. In the voice we hear the word which praises God. [...]
Advent Practices: Tending to Creation (Week One)
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For the season of Advent I will be offering a weekly column at Patheos on practices for Advent to nurture our intimacy with creation: As we enter these four weeks of Advent, we cross into a holy time when the scriptures are filled with images of expectancy as we await the coming of a God [...]
Spiritual Renewal in Times of Crisis
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Patheos periodically offers a theoblogger challenge to respond to a question in 100 words or less. I wasn't able to respond in time to be included in their list, but offer my response here. Stop by their website to see the other responses. Here is the prompt: Faced with an unexpected personal crisis, each of us [...]
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