A contemplative response to public struggles
How do SoulStream Partners—desiring to live contemplatively in the world—respond to public struggles such as the recent crisis at Standing Rock in N. Dakota? It’s not easy! It’s not just out there, far away. We have our own local painful…
Not the Help That Creation Expected
. . . Might not Incarnation be his response not to the incidental irregularity of sin but to the unhelpable presence of badness in creation? Perhaps in a world where, for admittedly inscrutable reasons, victimization is the reverse coin of…
Once You Are Real
It doesn’t happen all at once . . . You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by…
What is Truth?
What is truth? You can see where there is truth and where there isn’t, but I seem to have lost my sight. I see nothing. You boldly settle all the important questions, but tell me, my dear boy, isn’t it because you…
Childhood
I cannot reach it; and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that chronicle alive, Those white designs which children drive, And the thoughts of each harmless hour, With their content too in my power, Quickly…
Like a Shepherd
Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. — Jalaluddin Rumi
Wearing God
Perhaps if I sit inside Genesis 3 long enough, I might come to know that God is not hidden from my body, my body that holds delight and shame. Perhaps I will come to know that God is in fact…
Caught Up In An Adventure
We seem to be caught up in an adventure in which God wants to feel what it is like to be human in each of us. That is a kind of knowledge that God has never had. Our gift is…