journal and reflections
a collection of stories, verse, and personal reflections
Like a River Flows
I would love to live Like a river flows, Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding. John O’Donohue
The Living Truth
If you made a list of everything you own, everything you think of as you, everything that you prefer, that list would be the distance between you and the living truth. Stephen Levine
Everything is of God’s Making
If you would learn more, ask the cattle, Seek information from the birds of the air. The creeping things of earth will give you lessons, And the fishes of the sea will tell you all. There is not a single creature that does not know That everything is of God’s...
The Mercy of God
First the fall, and then the recovery from the fall, and both are the mercy of God. Julian of Norwich
There is No Resurrection Without the Cross
Perhaps it is Covid 19 that gives me this sense of an uncertain future and intensified my experience of the cross recently. I remember several years ago on Passion Sunday when towards the end of Lent and my spiritual journey of decent into Jerusalem had just...
Our real name
After all, life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had. Richard Rohr, OFM
God’s silence
Silence has become God’s final defense against our idolatry. By limiting our speech, God gets some relief from our descriptive assaults. By hiding within a veil of glory, God eludes our projections. God deflects our attempts at control by withdrawing into...
Image of God
St Gregory of Nyssa said every image of God is an idol. We become worshippers of a false god unless we can let go of our ideas about God. This is the terrible embarrassment and the terrible curse really of religion, that it so easily and quickly ends up in idolatry...
Our Wounds are Trophies
Our wounds are our very trophies!" They are the "holes in the soul" where the Light and the Life can break through. Julian of Norwich
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