Spiritual Poetry Writing Class
If you’d like to write spiritual poetry – or if you admire the writings of Rumi, Hafiz, Whitman, and others – please join us for an online writing group that will meet for four Tuesdays from 7-8:30 p.m EST.
Mudslide – by Janette Kennedy
Danger brings us here, where the experts smile and say, “Just a little more time.” In their swagger, we let our secret seed out into the open, to bloom. It is a strong plant,...
TRUE INTIMACY
True intimacy is to welcome every sensation just as it arises.
To be at home in the present instant without labels of better or worse, without preferring what should be to what is: such immediate...
See Only Miracles
To create its effect, every cause must pass through the realm of the miraculous.
The miraculous realm is the space between two thoughts. That a galaxy or a single seed both sprout from this space...
Faith is like a Shimmering Veil – by Jane Beal
Faith is like a shimmering veil. You can’t see through it. It’s like a cold shower. It wakes you up early and makes you shout, “O God!” Faith is like running on the sand...
Transformed by Writing – by Diana Raab
I wish I had known how brave I actually was on the day my grandmother committed suicide. I was ten years old when she overdosed on sleeping pills in my childhood home. Like any...
EXPLORING THE DIVINE FEMININE
Some newly restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla show what many see as evidence that the early Christian church had women priests. But The Vatican quickly dismissed the claims of the Women's Ordination...
Enough Excuses, Lets Go!
I’m watching a video of an outdoor adventure and these guys are using just basic equipment and having a blast. Wow, I could never go with just basic equipment. I have to have all...
WINTERSPACE
St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer MA
Walking through this field among a stand of old prairie oaks on a raw December day, I taste that experience again, where my own awareness and the space over the...