Space for Love
We are so busy, so occupied with many little things, that we are blind to the one great thing. Only in the pauses between things, in the brief contemplative spaces of just being, can we catch a glimpse of love…
Gestation rather than Stagnation
Homeostasis is necessary for life. It provides a stable home base, a resting place from which the body can respond to the surrounding world. . . In the service of homeostasis, addiction acts upon the human spirit like gravity upon…
The Mystery of Love
I do not think we can ever adequately define or understand love; I do not think we were ever meant to. We are meant to participate in love without really comprehending it. We are meant to give ourselves, live ourselves…
Celestial Horses
Here comes those silver celestial horses Rays of the moon in the mountain air I’m steeped in the steam of the last wild hot spring Maybe I’m melting but I don’t care There’s darkness in the canyon But the Light…
The Easter Challenge
You believe because you can see . . . Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe. —John 20:29 Every year it happens: earth shakes her sleepy head, still a bit wintered and dull, and feels new life…
First Steps, Brancaster
This is the day to leave the dark behind you Take the adventure, step beyond the hearth, Shake off at last the shackles that confined you, And find the courage for the forward path. You yearned for freedom through…
To be Poor in Spirit
How little we know what a human life really is – even our own. To judge us by what we call our actions is probably as futile as to judge us by our dreams. God’s justice chooses from the dark…
Prayer Reflection Paper – JF
By Jan Fung February 23, 2015 Prayer has been a stumbling-block for me over the past years, as I watched and listened for a response from God to my constant cries for help within traumatic life circumstances, and none seemed…