Today's Life-Line is:
There is suffering in human life and we do not know why it should be. Some we can see as the result of the gift of human freedom. Some we can see as the result of the forces of nature. Some is utterly inscrutable, with an apparent Read more [...]
What is hope?
It is a presentiment that imagination is more real
And reality less real than it looks. ~ Rubem Alves
So much is in the bud. ~ Denise Levertov
As stated in my reflection “Pensées – Advent Pondering 2,” Advent is a season Read more [...]
In Jesus,
God becomes
the incarnation of love
so that we who are the beneficiaries
of this divine extravagance
might learn to live it
and in living love
might become midwives
who help bring it forth
from whomever and wherever
life longs to be Read more [...]
Christmas
is a mystery,
a message,
and a mission.
Wishing you
a joy-filled
Christmastide.
Extravagant Blessings
on all who find their way
to The Sacred Braid
and read THE ALMOND TREE.
~ Dan Read more [...]
Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited.
But because he cannot be at home in it,
because he is out of place in it,
and yet he must be in it,
His place is with the others Read more [...]