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Today’s Life-Line is:
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman Read more [...]
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Today's Life-Line is:
All persons* should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ~ James Thurber
* I have made this quote inclusive.
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The Festival of Rain
Last night it rained. It is raining still. My heart is glad for the earth here in Southern California to drink deeply having been parched for so long. Right outside my window, the rain and the wind are having their way with a lemon tree whose fruit hang Read more [...]
A Word to the Wise — Effulgence
Effulgence [ih-fuhl-juh ns]
This week’s word is effulgence. Literally it means a shining forth and refers to a brilliant radiance.
One of the reasons I was first drawn to the writings of Abraham Heschel was because of the sheer beauty of the language. Read more [...]
Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me
My favorite quote to illuminate what it means to be holy is the well-worn line from St. Iranaeus: “The glory of God is the human person fully alive.” From the perspective of faith, the sacred drama of life involves and avails us the opportunity to Read more [...]
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Today’s Life-Line is:
Beautiful people do not just happen. ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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A Word to the Wise — Antiphon
Antiphon [an-tuh-fon]
This week’s word is ANTIPHON.
For a few years now I have been working on an acoustic theology that engenders an antiphonal spirituality, spirituality here meaning simply the enactment of one’s theology in the various spheres Read more [...]
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Today's Life-Line is:
"Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand." ~ Thomas Merton
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A Word to the Wise — Wonder
Wonder [wuhn-der]
This week our word is WONDER.
This year in The Human & the Holy community (H&H), we are eavesdropping on and then joining in an imagined conversation between four wise guides. One of those sages is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Read more [...]
A Word to the Wise — An Explanation
I have always been a lover of words. When I was a young boy, my mother’s older bachelor brother used to visit us in the States from Panama where he lived and take me for long walks to feed the ducks down at the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle. Read more [...]