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Today's Life-Line is:
Such love does
the sky now pour,
that whenever I stand in a field,
I have to wring out the light
when I get
home.
~ St. Francis of Assisi Read more [...]
Tag Archives: Love
Prelude for a Meditator
Mindbe still.Thoughtslet go of, let fallaway.Facethe blind beggar’sat night orthe flower baskingin the light.Eyesshut softlyor shyly castdown.Wordswithhold.Dissolve like a lozengeon the tongue.No more.Voicego quiet as sand.Breatheuntil it becomes Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
What we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights Read more [...]
Saints Alive!
I was relistening to a podcast this week in which the interviewee, Francis Weller, a psychotherapist, writer, and expert in the healing work of grief ritual, made the comment that in his work he sees two ailments that especially seem to afflict people Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
The root of Christian love is not the will to love, but the faith that one is loved. The faith that one is loved by God. That faith that one is loved by God although unworthy---or, rather, irrespective of one's worth!
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
Before you can love a person you have to start with simpler things and gradually build up your skill --- start with a rock, a cloud, a tree.
~ Carson McCullers Read more [...]
The Touch of Love — It Is Everything
Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi (The Body of Christ). I have spoken and written a fair amount over the years about the Eucharist. My article “Listening to the Wind in the Wheat” says much though not all of what I believe is important about the Read more [...]
The Love that Returns
Most, if not all of you, are familiar with the story in Luke 15: 11-32 typically called the parable of the prodigal son. Those of you who have read what I have written or heard me speak on this passage know that I feel it has been misnamed. It would be Read more [...]
Love that Carries Suffering that Carries Love
NOTE: Today’s reflection is an excerpt from a November 4, 2014 post where it was titled “Embracing Life, Engaging Death, Part VI.”
“How should we live in a way which is compatible with our being a likeness of God?”
~ Abraham Joshau Heschel
“Where Read more [...]
Passion
This week I will dip into the Archives and offer a reflection each day leading up to Easter. Today and tomorrow’s reflections are from 2014 when the theme for The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community (H&H) that I lead was “Embracing Read more [...]