Attuned to Soul

Awaken, you buried seeds asleep in your earthen tombs. Rise up with joy to break forth the hard coffins of your shells. Your Easter time has come; the song of the dove is heard over the softening land. Winter has hidden, and spring now dances on your graves to waken the dead. Awaken, seeds of … Continue reading Easter, History and Mystery

“You may have heard the saying that the difference between stumbling blocks and building blocks is the way we use them. What I view as troublesome or problematic may be so only because I choose to see it that way. But if I accept the possibility that there is a script or plan other than … Continue reading Stumbling Blocks or Building Blocks

“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provision for the days to come and everything turns out differently, quite differently... The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves … Continue reading Peace that Surpasses Understanding

“The purpose of looking is to survive, to cope, to manipulate, to discern what is useful, agreeable, or threatening to the Me. What enhances or diminishes Me. When I “see” I am all eyes. I forget the Me, and am liberated from it.” Artist and author Frederick Franck makes an important distinction between looking and … Continue reading That I May See

“To acknowledge and cross a new threshold is always a challenge. It demands courage and also a sense of trust in whatever is emerging. This becomes essential when a threshold opens suddenly in front of you, one for which you had no preparation. This could be illness, suffering, or loss. Because we are so engaged … Continue reading Crossing a Threshold

“Much like the life of ordinary waves, we as human beings are gathered in our passion out of a larger home, that sea of infinite spirit, and propelled from an unfathomable depth, we mount and curl and crest and spray, only to subside back into that from which we come. Profoundly, grace comes to the … Continue reading We are Waves on the Sea

“…I have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that...the sons of … Continue reading I Have a Dream

“…sooner or later, all of us are ushered by fate, by the actions of others, by choices we make, both conscious and unconscious, into places we do not wish to visit. Such rooms in our common psychic mansion we label depression, loss, grief, addiction, anxiety, envy, shame, and the like…In these dismal environs we are … Continue reading Swamplands of the Soul

“Now at this time Caesar Augustus issued a decree for a census of the whole world to be taken… So Joseph set out from the town of Nazareth in Galilee and traveled up to Judaea, to the town of David called Bethlehem…in order to be registered together with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. … Continue reading Glory to God in the Lowest

“Life is short. Remember that, too. I’ve always known this. Or almost always. I’ve been living with mortality for decades, since my mother died of ovarian cancer when she was forty and I was nineteen. And this is what I learned from that experience: that knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God … Continue reading Life is Short