A Celebration of Love
Please Note: I added some more Lenten Resources in the post below, please keep the ideas coming for books to read or practices to take on. The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the ‘love which moves the sun and […]
Lenten Resources
The beginning of Lent is coming up a week from Wednesday. I love the seasons of Lent and Advent because they invite us to a deeper level of reflection, a retreat in the midst of everyday life. The 40 days of Lent comes from the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert in preparation for his life of […]
Emerging
I spent most of the weekend curled up in bed nursing my migraines. They began Friday morning when we had our Monthly Gathering, a wonderful morning of walking the labyrinth together except that I was in a bit of a haze from pain killers. That afternoon I was able to get my infusion two weeks […]
I Am Going to Start Living Like a Mystic
I am Going to Start Living Like a Mystic Today I am pulling on a green wool sweater and walking across the park in a dusky snowfall. The trees stand like twenty-seven prophets in a field, each a station in a pilgrimage–silent, pondering. Blue flakes of light falling across their bodies are the ciphers of a […]
Rule of Life at the Abbey
I have been reading a wonderful article from The Way journal by Andrew Linzey who is a theologian and writer on animal theology. I was delighted to discover that he has in fact published several books on the subject. Linzey writes: “People who keep animals have often made an elementary but profound discovery: animals are not […]
Updates
I am doing a little housekeeping and unpacking of more boxes here at the Abbey: I have updated my Resource List to include blog friends (scroll to the bottom of the page). One of the reasons I have never done this before is I am afraid of forgetting someone, so if I have done so, please […]
Honoring the Greater Body
I am very touched by the response to my post yesterday both in comments and in email. I knew opening up this vulnerable place would begin to shift things in me again, move me again to that place where honoring my body is a gift rather than a burden. I am always struggling in some […]