Be-A-ware
Be-A-ware is a short piece I wrote because I find many well meaning people of faith are not necessarily malicious as much as they may not be aware, or awake.
Category: Growing Deeper
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Heaven in Hell’s Despair
“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” -William Blake, from The Clod and the Pebble Love is the primary element in the alchemy of the Beautiful Way. It is the creative, restorative force that enlivens and sustains…
What does Love see? An Ode to failure
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single person contemplates it, bearing the image of a cathedral within. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery Ode to failure: a life that hasn’t turned out the way one had hoped. If we genuinely believe that nothing is wasted, that God is the ultimate…
Grief is …
Grief is messy. Grief is ugly. Grief is complex. Grief is painful. Grief is life-altering. Grief is a human experience – we all experience loss in a multiplicity of ways throughout our lives. Some of these losses can be relatively minor, while others can prove to be cataclysmic, disruptive and painful. We are each unique, our…
The Hum of the Creating Heart
It turns out that hum I hear in my head may be something more than the hamster on the wheel! Can you hear it? Can you hear the hum, the electromagnetic hum of molecules as they interact in all things? It’s not something we can hear audibly (but I suspect we can intuit), and yet…
Loving our Lepers
There is an old story about St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), the founder of the Catholic order known as the Franciscans. The story goes that Francis was revolted by people with leprosy. As you may be aware, leprosy is a horrible and disfiguring disease. While leprosy is curable today, people did suffer terribly and from…
Conspiring for Wholeness
I was walking with a friend, and we were talking about life and its challenges. We were talking about how sometimes we can get driven along by the frenetic pace of life, lose our balance and be tossed around on the currents of circumstances, feeling like we are adrift and aimless. And other times, like…
Missing God in both Success and Failure
Why is it that when I sense a leading from God and follow through, the results so profoundly determines my hindsight? If things fit together with ease and all goes well I am confident that I have indeed heard God. Alternately, if things blow up in my face, I am suddenly stricken with a rash…
Love is… Indiscriminate
Consider a rose. Can a rose choose who it will share its breath-taking beauty with? Can it withhold its captivating fragrance from bad people and share liberally with good people? The sun shines, and the rain falls on the saints and the sinners alike. Authentic love does not discriminate, like the beauty and fragrance of…
Divine Love and Road Trips
This is another photo taken on our trip to a Kite Festival in Saskatchewan, Canada. The prairies can provide breathtaking scenery. The contrast of dark sky and land with the layer of light between them was remarkable. Despite being captured by a phone camera, traveling in a car at 120kph, I think it…