“Welcome to your own priesthood,
practiced at the altar of your own life.” (xvii)
“Christianity ‘is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one’s body shaped, one’s habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.’ (quote from Stanley [...]
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In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.
-Rumi
Monday night I went to the cemetery to meet my friend and writing/teaching partner Betsey Beckman who has created a video of her Mary Magdalene storydance [...]
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As expected I am learning much from my yoga practice this week. Showing up each morning and creating space to listen to my body has been powerful on many levels. In the class we have learned a balanced series of poses that we repeat each day and now move through them at our own pace in [...]
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I want to unfold. I do not want to remain folded up anywhere,
because wherever I am still folded, I am untrue.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
I am currently participating in a two-week yoga intensive at a studio near my house. Monday through Friday for two weeks I arrive for my 8:30 class to commit to another day of my [...]
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I am in the midst of a pretty intense time of creative laboring and as I have told my friends I feel like the time has come to give birth and I am having triplets! The first creation was the intensive class I taught last week on Contemporary Expressions of Monastic Spirituality with a wonderful [...]
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It’s summertime which means an invitation to indulge in some of summer’s pleasures. Despite the fact that I have been hard at work writing a second book and preparing to teach, I still take breaks for some of summer’s finer gifts. Let’s celebrate slowness. Some things that should be done s-l-o-w-l-y:
Taking a long swim in the [...]
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When I dare to be powerful—
to use my strength in the service of my vision—
then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
-Audre Lorde
We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. God’s inscrutable love seeks our awakening.
True, since this awakening implies a [...]
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I am feeling in a reflective mood these days. I have been working quite hard lately and over the last several weekends have had a lot of time to interact with some wonderful folks and to create sacred space for retreat. So knowing that next week brings another amazing time of immersion with wonderful folks and [...]
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The high priests brought many charges against him. Pilate again questioned him, saying, “Have you no answers? Look how much you are accused of.” But Jesus still said nothing. Pilate was amazed.
-Mark 15:3-5
Always the beautiful answer. Who asks a more beautiful question?
-ee cummings
I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, [...]
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I’m the secret fire in everything, and everything smells like Me.
The living breathe My sweet perfume, and they breathe out praise of Me.
They never die because I am their Life.
I flame out—intense, godly Life—over the shining fields of corn, I glow in the shimmer of the fire’s embers, I burn in the sun and the [...]
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