Prayer

There’s a Life Waiting for You

There's a life waiting for you just across the threshold of your fear, just beyond what your mind can see. This life is not about others liking you. It's not a clever scheme to make you rich. This life...

Prayer of Service

My eyes are closed–and my heart wide open. With a soft and gentle spirit I AM HERE. Asking, imploring to know What would you have me do? I am yours–to serve, to love, to pray, to support. Show me the...

The Great Cliches

There are times in life when I must return to the great simplicities, which some would call cliches. That's all right with me. A cliche is a truth that never needs to change because...

Harnessing the Power of Time

One day about five years ago, when Barak Obama was running for president the first time, I heard him talking on the radio about wind power.  He said that the wind is a cheap,...

The World Dances in Your Sabbath

To purify the world, see the world as pure. Then act upon the pure world from the level of purified vision. To purify your vision, meditate. To meditate is to immerse one's heart in absolute...

Reading, Intimacy, Angels of Death

Reading, I think, is a fundamentally spiritual experience. The phenomenologist Georges Poulet once remarked that, when we read, another person’s “I” enters into our own souls. Think about it: when we read the word...

The Vessel

Within the beginning God created us in God’s own image; God formed us from dirt, yet blessed with Divine visage.  We are caught between the human and the Divine; participants of God’s kingdom in our...

Nourishing the Soul

Wow, I feel great!! I rolled out of bed early Monday morning. I haven’t felt this good in weeks!!  Usually I’m up early and ready to tackle the day but the last few weeks I...

Blessed Solstice!

Oh, pleasurable blessings full of ease, to ALL this Solstice, and always. I was reminded of this song today, and it is perfect: "This is my home, this is my only home This is the only sacred ground that...

The True Light of God

Gurucharanam Saranam The man with the power of clairvoyance slowly opened his eyes and said: ‘When I observe your life, I see a bright light, which is very rare.  It is the true light of...