Month: December 2014

  • A Toast to the New Year and Us

     A Toast   Let us lift our hearts to the Source of our lives. Let us lift our thoughts to the highest we envision. Let us turn to one another and embrace to give of our abundance always. Let us then praise the goodness of our lives and wish the new year to be gracious…

  • The Divine Drama

    When my beloved young friend was settling her mother’s estate, she gave me this wooden sculpture and said this belongs to you.  My first thought was in awe that she thought this and my second thought to the monk was,  ‘where have you been all my life?.’  Through moves and floods it has come with…

  • Beggar’s Prayer on Christmas Eve

    Beggar’s Prayer   I come with the Grace of all those I beseech, quietly. In all names holy. My work done with love, in prayerful attendance to life, to acknowledge the birdsong extolling the morning and awakening the sun in triumph over night. Sending the mist to dissipate over the Mount, to nudge the sleeping…

  • A Family Christmas Gift

    Sometimes what has been said once needs to be repeated.   There is a substance to the word that speaks not only to the young but to the ones who care mightily for them.   It is the kind of family gift that will bridge generations and allow the young to try their wings no matter their…

  • To Begin Again. . . .a Christmas Gift

    To family and dear friends who have been married for many decades and wish to give each other a gift with much hope attached,  I give to you this gift of words to tuck into your card of love.   Do not concern yourself that these words will be misunderstood.  For love speaks in waves of…

  • The Loving Place. . . . .a Christmas gift

    The Loving Place A home, a hearth, the loving place that nurtures the fragile psyche, granting each the right to perceive the universe as is his to perceive. Building memories year upon year, granting courage for the hurting moments and bearing them. Yet yielding to the greater truth that life continues to be good. Granting…

  • With A Glad Heart

    The question was put to me, how does one teach an Other how to envision the larger picture? Especially when it comes to work? Sweaty work. Weeding gardens or fields of cucumbers? How does one teach another that to look at work from another perspective will give the person a different feel for what it…

  • Give A Moment of Thought. . . . .

      What it is we desire, is often delivered in spades. Trophies do not always hang on walls.  Often they hang on the heart. It is more than all right to feel kindly about oneself.   It is the only home one has for this space in time. Oftentimes what we call a mind set is…