Recognizing Sacred Space

We seldom notice how each day is a holy placeWhere the eucharist of the ordinary happens,Transforming our broken fragmentsInto an eternal continuity that keeps us.Somewhere in us a dignity presidesThat is more gracious than the smallnessThat fuels us with fear and...

I Came to Love You Too Late

I came to love you too late, Oh Beauty,so ancient and so new. Yes,I came to love you too late. What did I know?You were inside me, and I wasout of my body and mind lookingfor you.I drove like an ugly madman againstthe beautiful things and beingsyou made.You were...

Ecstasy

Draw me after You!We will run in the fragrance of Your perfumes,O heavenly Spouse!I will run and not tire,until You bring me into the wine-cellar,until Your left hand is under my headand Your right hand will embrace me happily[and] You will kiss me with the...

Advent Proclamation

We are called to proclaim the truth . . . And let us believe:It is not true that this world and its people aredoomed to die and to be lost.This is true: I have come that they may have lifein all its abundance.It is not true that we must accept inhumanity...
Routine

Routine

I sigh deeply and pray through my fear that things will not change: that we will continue to commute blindly along the same roads, breathe without tasting the same toxic air, aspire to the dubious (and false) distinction of middle class security, deaden the same...

For Healing and Resting (India.Arie)

I release all disappointmentfrom a mental, a physical,a spiritual and emotional body’Cause I know that Spirit guides me,and Love lives inside meThat’s why today I take life as it comes.”Healing” interlude by India.Arie, from her album Voyage to...

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