Prayer Loom (a Prayer What??)

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread, and held and carried by a hundred others.  – Rainer Maria Rilke For the past few years, we’ve tried to adopt...

Desire and Persistence

My cat teaches me about desire, about persistence.  // Seated for a time of prayer, I hear him at the screen door, crying.  I open the door, open my heart.  Seated again, he climbs, purring, into the warm curve of my lap.  His black fur is wet, his...

Keep Showing Up

I found myself in a bit of a funk last night. After mowing the front lawn, I sneaked into my office to pray for awhile. It helped. And then I saw my daughter outside and decided to join her because the hot humid day had finally turned cool and breezy. We road our...

Imagination: Creative Power, Curiosity, Vision

I do not think that the opposite of imagination is reality.  Far from it.  The opposite of imagination is cynicism and boredom; they are influences that deny reality (cynicism) or escape it (boredom).  They blind us to the beauty of human experience or...
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