Feeling Safe With a Person . . .
Oh the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person: having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them out. Just as they are–chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,…
Turn Me Tender
It’s happened again, there’s a colourless skyIt’s dimmed me again, I’ve run out of whyHank Williams is grieving I’m scanning the psalmsit says when Jesus was here they stilettoed his palmsAnd the pledge and the vow as you find if…
Loneliness Revisited
Loneliness, at a psychological level, if you go deeper, it’s solitude. Solitude is a mysterious kind of intimacy in which we are all united with one another . . . God can sometimes providentially wean us off our dependency on…
Love Mischief in Winnipeg
A member of our extended A Rocha community passed away this January. Her name was Debbie, and she was a friend of the A Rocha-led community gardens in Winnipeg. Debbie spent a lot of time standing on the street near…
Dying to Know You
Old streets don’t lead back where they used toWe blaze new trails to ancient placesI still love You just like I used toBut this love won’t fit spreadsheets I don’t just want to hear itI want to feel it tooIt’s…
The Vindication of Feeling
The vindication of the importance of feeling in our life, and in particular its primacy over reason in all that has to do with man’s contact with the transcendental world, has been one of the great achievements of modern psychology.…
On Gambling
To a frog that’s never left his pond the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he’s giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. “I can’t really explain what it’s like where…
Like Weather . . . Each Moment Unfolding As It Does
Dearly Beloved,Grace and Peace to you. Days are longer now,birds sing sweetly,daffodils sway brightly,and a storm dumps four inches of snowand a tree on our house.On the road the sun on the deadly ice is brilliant. Life mixes its metaphors.Besides the snow…