Advent Practices: Considering Our Earthiness (Week Four)
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 […]
Re-membering
I practice yoga at a beautiful place, it is a non-profit studio in Seattle thoroughly committed to making yoga accessible for everyone. They do amazing work bringing yoga to persons dying of AIDS, to veterans and refugees, to persons with disabilities. They also are wonderful at integrating yoga philosophy into their regular classes. Each month has a […]
Water, Wind, Earth, & Fire is a “Best Spiritual Book”!
I was very honored to find out yesterday that Water, Wind, Earth, & Fire: The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements was included on Spirituality and Practice’s list of Best Spiritual Books of 2010 (scroll down to Nature category). Their website says: Every year from the more than 300 books we review on this website, […]
New books coming in 2011
In the midst of my sorrow, waiting, and unknowing, there has also been great joy here at the Abbey. I am blessed to be able to dedicate a great deal of time to writing these days which makes my heart sing. While they are not due out until April and July 2011, there is a special […]
Invitation to Poetry: Autumn Blessings
Welcome to Poetry Party No. 47! I select an image and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your poems or other reflections. Add your responses in the comments section. Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog (if you have one) […]
Spiritual Renewal in Times of Crisis
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 […]
Sabbath Now
For the last two weeks there has been a funny thing happening with my calendar. Each day when I open my Outlook program a notice appears just like all of the other appointment reminders except this one says “Sabbath: Now.” I do have my Saturdays blocked off as Sabbath days and so somehow this entry […]