In the town of Mill Valley in Northern California there lives an Irish poet. His name is Raymond. Sister Dolores McGuire met him one day as she walked across the plaza there, where he converses with the people as they sit, stand, or simply pass by.
Raymond Read more [...]
A Reflection in Three Parts
Part Three
I’m a soul in wonder. ~ Van Morrison
In the place where wonder comes from,
there I find you. ~ Bruce Cockburn
Out of the mouth of babes. ~ Some former babe
Every person, every couple, every family Read more [...]
A Reflection in Three Parts
Part One
The heavens are telling the glory of God. ~ Ps. 19:1
The world is charged with the grandeur of God ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Awe is an intuition for the dignity Read more [...]
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 [...]
To engage in the natural art of contemplation is to look long and steadily, leisurely and lovingly at anything—a tree, a child, a pear, a kitten, a hippopotamus, and really “see” the whole of it; not to steal an idea of it, but to know it Read more [...]