Monthly Archives: March 2013

A prayer of Homecoming: We are grateful for journeys completed and safely returning home. Exploration brings new wonders, new understandings and deeper wisdom to our lives, but it is in arriving back to the climes of familiarity that we process … Continue reading →

So many things to be known in a life! To be seen, felt, heard, and experienced. A bow drawn on the strings of a cello. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The precision of the surgeon’s scalpel. Isadora Duncan. Algebraic … Continue reading →

“Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain.” Let us be mindful, then, that an abundance of words often leads to mis-speech, mis-meaning, mis-understanding, and misery. May we say only what we truly mean, and truly mean what … Continue reading →

A prayer for faraway friends. We are separated by miles and circumstance, by means but not by meaning. I see your pain, and I despair: how might I lend you my resources? How might I carry your burden? How might … Continue reading →

A prayer for light in the darkness. For order out of chaos. For compassion without forgiveness. For abiding love. For relationship. For mourning. For mourning in the mourning. For phones that ring late at night. For tears. For remembrance. Again, … Continue reading →

May today bring expedient joy and undelayed gratification. May our wishes come true. May happiness reign supreme. May our pockets be full. May the sun shine brightly with the wind at our back. May everyone we encounter greet us with … Continue reading →

O, Wondrous Family – a prayer for separation and deliverance. Our lives are entwined, woven in the tapestry of humanity. I am the warp, and you are the weft. Now we are together, now we are apart. I cross over … Continue reading →

We encounter many obstacles in the course of our living.  Physical and emotional obstacles, or financial, or spiritual.  Each has its own inherent challenge, and those challenges attack us at our core.  That is the nature of obstacles, and why … Continue reading →

We are, each of us, the mirrors by which we see and know ourselves; we are distressed when our reflections are unrecognizable. Is it because we truly don’t know ourselves? Is it because the mirror gives a distorted vision, due … Continue reading →

Today is the day for inspiration!  Today is the day to recognize the next possibility!  Today is the day to imagine!  Today is the day for creative thinking!  Today is the day for compassionate action!  Today is the day for … Continue reading →