Friday, February 24, 2012

February 22, 2012



Be a gardener

Dig a ditch,

toil and sweat,

and turn the earth upside down

and seek the deepness

and water the plants in time.

Continue this labor

and make sweet floods to run

and noble and abundant fruits

to spring.

Take this food and drink

and carry it to God

as your true worship.

Julian of Norwich

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

February 15, 2012




The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.
~ Mary Oliver ~

Sunday, February 12, 2012

February 8, 2012



Love Generously

Rachel Naomi Remen


When I imagine myself as an old woman at the end of my life and ask myself how I will evaluate my time here, there is only one question that concerns me: Did I love well? There are a thousand ways to love other people and the world – with our touch, our words, our silences, our work, our presence. I want to love well. This is my hunger. I want to make love to the world by the way I live in it, by the way I am with myself every day.​ ​

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Reflection for February 1, 2012




WEAVING IN AND OUT OF LIVES
I'VE COME TO KNOW
THE LETTING GO
AS THE SURRENDER IN THAT WAR
BETWEEN MY ROOTS AND WINGS.

Macrina Wiederkehr
"Seasons of Your Heart"