Originally posted on Secret Garden Creative:
This past weekend, I was invited to participate in some sacred ceremonies belonging to another culture. I was welcomed into something I have very little understanding of and held there, supported. I was included. It was a situation where I could easily have been held at a distance, left…
Month: January 2019
“Embracing the polar vortex” by earth sky air (re-blogged)
Originally posted on earth sky air:
The snow flies around me, tracing wild paths through the air. The wind sweeps it over and down the roof of a house, and then, up, up, and it suddenly swirls into a small tornado – fast and fantastic. I am in the middle of a frigid ballet, dancers…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Environment” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Medio Ambiente”)
Environment I commit to living in harmony with the earth. By physical standards, I am separate from other things on this earth—the ground that supports and feeds me, the water I drink, even the air I breathe. When I shift into spiritual awareness, I recognize the oneness of the tapestry of life. Not one…
POEMS: “Enemies” by Wendell Berry
Enemies If you are not to become a monster, you must care what they think. If you care what they think, how will you not hate them, and so become a monster of the opposite kind? From where then is love to come—love for your enemy that is the way of liberty? From forgiveness. Forgiven,…
POEMS: “Water” by Wendell Berry
Water I was born in a drought year. That summer my mother waited in the house, enclosed in the sun and the dry ceaseless wind, for the men to come back in the evenings, bringing water from a distant spring. veins of leaves ran dry, roots shrank. And all my life I have dreaded…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Faith” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Fe”)
Faith My faith is in the light of God. In areas that experience seasonal weather, landscapes can appear bleak during the winter. Seasons will pass and the long days of summer light will return. The same holds true with my own life. If I notice any darkness, I remember that all things have their source…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Forgive” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Perdonar”)
Forgive As I forgive myself, I can forgive others. The words I say and choices I make can sometimes hurt others, and I may feel regret for something I’ve said or done. Forgiving others is one of the keys to living free. Before I can truly forgive anyone else, however, I must first be…
(Learning from Nature) POEMS: “Limitless”
Limitless
Sun says, “Be your own
illumination.”
If you need to uplift your spirits, take 12 minutes to listen to the: “Concierto de Aranjuez” (Spanish guitar by Pablo Sáinz Villegas)
Thank you Anita for sending me this link.
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Seize the moment” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Aprovecha el momento”
Seize the Moment I embrace the possibilities for good in this moment. In her book Lessons in Truth, H. Emilie Cady shares this affirmation: I am a … manifestation of God, and every moment [divine] life, love, wisdom, power flow into and through me. Her words inspire me to begin thinking of problems as…
POEMS: “The Wish to be Generous” by Wendell Berry
The Wish to be Generous ALL that I serve will die, all my delights, the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field, the silent lilies standing in the woods, the woods, the hill, the whole earth, all will burn in man’s evil, or dwindle in its own age. Let the world bring on me…
POEMS: “The Real Work” by Wendell Berry
The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that…
