Tag Archives: Creation

Lectio Poetica No. 12 i thank You God for most

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I first encountered E.E. Cummings' poetry during my freshman or sophomore year in college. I  must have been exposed to Cummings in high school though I have no recollection of it. One of the few books I have on my shelf from back in the Paleolithic Read more [...]

The Deepest Bow to God is Awe

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Religion begins with the sense of the ineffable, with the awareness of a reality that discredits our wisdom, that shatters our concepts. It is the ineffable with which we must begin. ~ Abraham Heschel One reason I was drawn to Rabbi Abraham Heschel's Read more [...]

My Sunday Mo(u)rning Rant*

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Experience shows humans tend to care for what we know and love, those we know and love. So the summons to life, the summons from and for life, the summons for survival -- no longer ours, but that of our children and grandchildren and the well-being Read more [...]

Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps’ Most Important Teachers

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A man in his mid-twenties said to Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps, “You have taught us so much these past few years. We are grateful for all that you have opened up for us. The provocative questions you have raised we will carry with us for the Read more [...]

A Place Where One Would Want to Live

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A parable beginning before our time, for our time, and for time after time. A story of the power of one: one person, one imaginative idea turned into one wild dream, one wild dream enacted one day, then another, and another. One story of a simple hidden Read more [...]