You can talk about the balm in Gilead But what about the balm Right Here What about the healing of the wounded heart When someone you have harmed gleefully embraces you?
from the Art of Living by Erich Fromm
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are the means of security, becomes a prisoner… The practice […]
Accepting This by Mark Nepo
Yes, it is true. I confess, I have thought great thoughts, and sung great songs—all of it rehearsal for the majesty of being held. The dream is awakened when thinking I love you and life begins when saying I love you and joy moves like blood when embracing others with love. My efforts now turn […]
The Path by Lynn Ungar
Life, the saying goes, is a journey, and who could argue with that? We’ve all experienced the surprising turns, the nearly-impassible swamp, the meadow of flowers that turned out not to be quite so blissful and benign as we first thought, the crest of the hill where the road smoothed out and sloped toward home. […]
To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do — by Frederick Buechner
To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do — to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst— is by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more […]
from No Future Without Forgiveness by Bishop Desmond Tutu
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes […]
Now is the time for turning by Rabbi Jack Reimer
To everything there is a season, and there is an appointed time for every purpose under heaven. Now is the time for turning. The leaves are beginning to turn from green to red and orange. The birds are beginning to turn to storing their food for the winter. For leaves, birds, and animals turning comes […]
blessing the boats by Lucille Clifton
may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through […]
Discard the myths and legends for what they are by Geraldine Caple
Discard the myths and legends for what they are Strip away the accretions of the centuries Abandon the traditional pagan observances The feasting and drinking The spurious good will End the materialism, the commercialism, the whole whirl of activity And what will remain? With unimagined clarity, we will experience an intermission, a quietness, a stillness […]
Light at the End of the Tunnel by Judith Sargent Murray
We march through this tunnel This dark, everlasting tunnel But I wonder I wonder if the sun is rising I wonder if the light is coming This is for the best That once we have marched through the tunnel to get to where we need to be Maybe the sun will shine on our beautiful […]
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