Rain fell today
Rain fell today and somewhere lotus flowers are blossoming. So are we. Defying the impossible in the shelter and warmth of each other's hearts, extending the night, caressing the stars,…Read more
Loving life
The thing is to love life to love it even when you have no stomach for it, when everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands and…Read more
The bigger bang of Christmas
Genesis 1, Luke 1:78-79 Creator God, from your fecund womb, a birth-explosion of light and matter erupted. You declared it, proud Mother, to be good. Time, evolution's handmaid, passed. And…Read more
Out in the fields with God
The little cares that fretted me. I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea. Among the winds at play; Among the lowing of the herds, The rustling of…Read more
Let me be the Light
Help me to let go of my preoccupations with the future. Give me the strength to stop my futile attempts to predict and control the future. Let me see no…Read more
I Am Changing
Bless the confusion. Let it be. Commend it to Earth like autumn leaves, scattering, half-rotten, seeding the future, becoming fertile food for sleeping rose roots. Be a leaf. Lie low.…Read more
We all have the same ache
There is a tension in living fully, what often feels like an opposition between our longing for the solitude where we can find our own company and the desire to…Read more
Nature loves courage
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you…Read more