Ash Wednesday: Practice Truth-Telling
Ash Wednesday marks a threshold when we leave ordinary time to enter into the journey of Lent through the desert. The desert is that uncharted terrain beyond the edges of our seemingly secure and structured world, where things begin to crack. We begin this desert journey marked with ashes, the sign of our mortality. There […]
Stirring in the Belly: Listening for New Life
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 […]
Visual Meditation: Christmas Blessings from Vienna
Christmas blessings to all friends of the Abbey – may you discover the holy being birthed within your own heart, may your life enflesh the sacred presence for others. Stop by “Give me a Word” and share the word shimmering for you for 2011 and read the moving reflections others have posted in response to […]
Visual Meditation: Winter Solstice (in Vienna)
Today in the Northern hemisphere we celebrate the Winter Solstice, that day of the great turning toward the light. Winter is my favorite season with her achingly beautiful spareness. I offer you some images from my time away below. Blessings on your own journey through holy darkness toward illumination. More photos to come later in […]
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, […]