IN YOUR SILENT NIGHT… when you cannot sleep and the whole world seems too quiet… In your SILENT night… when the demands around you seem to separate you from the rest of humanity… In your SILENT night… when change has taken your peace and hid it in a place you have no energy to find… … Continue reading In your Silent Night
Category: In the Moment
JOY
This Christmas as I reflect on what the past year has given me, I recognize that JOY has found me! For so long, I have searched for my niche, and while every corner of my life feeds me… bright contentment has settled on my soul… Many paths have led me to this time… Each turn, … Continue reading JOY
Miracles Happen…
It was a perfect challenge for me… Tackle a too-long-neglected cupboard space and make it worthy of daily living… Being a part of the refugee resettlement project has given us ample opportunities to embrace these challenges. We never know what condition the rental spaces will be in when they’re announced. All that can be guaranteed … Continue reading Miracles Happen…
Pondering the Path
There is nothing like a country road, or a hiking trail through the woods, to remind us of the essential practice of pausing. In the haste of life, we can find ourselves on a path, yet fail to see all it has to offer… Where is it leading us? Or more specifically, WHAT is leading … Continue reading Pondering the Path
Look for the Crack
Groping in the darkness, all we can rely on is the belief that beyond the unrest is the light we know is calling us. Too often, life these days takes us from crisis to crisis. From personal to family to community and globally, we are bombarded with the challenges of difference. The isolation we were … Continue reading Look for the Crack
We can invite them into our fold so that they don’t feel the need to destroy it…
Knowing yet another community has been decimated… Or that we as a nation have failed, once again, to make our country a safe land of opportunity. As an educator, I am not sure which is worse… I know that I am not alone in asking, what can we DO? I had just posted about how … Continue reading We can invite them into our fold so that they don’t feel the need to destroy it…
Awesome or Invasive?
Breathtaking… that’s the only word that captured the golden surroundings as we walked the well-trodden trails this past weekend. Familiar paths, transformed with a cloak of yellow brought a genuine smile to my face that matched the sunshiny day around us. An invasive species is an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a … Continue reading Awesome or Invasive?
Which Path?
The harshness of the world’s realities has many of us pausing more and more often as we seek answers and clarity for how to face the future. I think about the foundations that were given to me and how they have sustained me during many of life’s tribulations. I am tempted to feel for the … Continue reading Which Path?
Faith…Justice…Power…
Every year without fail, the King cake arrived. I don’t know how many Harriet sent out, but every family member across the USA remarked about it… and that’s a LOT of King Cakes. For those who may not know, (I did NOT before I met my sister-in-law, Harriet!)… the King Cake originated in France and … Continue reading Faith…Justice…Power…
Equanimity
For as long as I can remember, life has been reminding me to find balance. This life-long task has come at varying degrees of ease and struggle, with circumstance, personal practices and grace always playing the leading roles. This past month of January as we entered a new calendar year, offered a spectrum of life … Continue reading Equanimity