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Secret Sometimes when the morning sun streams through the kitchen window and I’m washing the dishes or opening a can of cat food or sweeping potato peels and onion skins off the linoleum floor, I get so taken with the way my arms move back and forth with the broom or how pretty my … Read more
Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is
Don’t spend it on the stack of mail, the phone call, the mounting inventory of groceries. Resist the finished wash cycle and the dishes clamoring for clean-up.
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i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth day of … Read more
Your Children Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. … Read more
Genesis 1 or Genesis 2 Where did it begin This idea called you? In Genesis 1, Or Genesis 2? Which one of these concepts Will prove to be true? If you know what is what, Do you know who is who? In Genesis 1 in the 26th verse There’s a man with never a taint’ … Read more
Happiness It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness there is something to rub against, a wound to tend with lotion and cloth. When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up, something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change. But happiness … Read more
We just rang the bells of my church/ twenty-eight times, not twenty-six./ Twenty-eight times,/ because twenty-eight people died last Friday in Newtown,
What If? What if you knew that everything was going to be okay, that something was in motion beyond your field of vision, beyond even the periphery of your knowing? What if you knew that everything you want, everything you’ve been seeking, trying to figure out, missing, is right here, already whole in your hands, … Read more
The Safe Place: There is no little space where God is not,/ No crevice, cranny, fissure, scissure, slot,/…Through which His counterfeits can infiltrate.
I PROMISE MYSELF: To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet. To make all my…
The poem below is a redux of my poem of last week. Joe simply nailed the essence I was after. Thank you to all who shared these thought provoking quotes…
So Winter Passes:
Deep and deeper still,/
beneath the ragged elms and gnarled oaks,/
tangled roots as fingers lie knotted,/
entwined together as in prayer…
Looking for Your Face From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace of the face that I was looking for Today I have found you and those who laughed and scorned me yesterday … Read more
I have the best blog readers. Shared below is the response I got from a blog reader (who is an Episcopal priest in Georgia) regarding the poem I wrote yesterday. I thought it was wonderful, complete with its great internal rhyme scheme. Thank you! Tattoos (Apologies to Polly) What do you have tattooed on your … Read more
The poem below was written by a blog reader of mine who is a friend from my local clergy association. A spiritual psychotherapist, Fred keeps a poetry blog that I think my readers might enjoy. Check it out! This Much I Know I have been trying God’s patience For over sixty years…. Assuming there is … Read more
Wishing you a blessed Christmas! I made the Swedish star above and my thirteen year old daughter wrote the poem below… Emmanuel The essence of the wind The kindness of humanity The relationships we have All are, Emmanuel The enlightened faces The rejoicing voices The smiles all around The love of, Emmanuel The thoughts of … Read more