Posts Tagged ‘Care of Soul’
Our Season of Waiting
For many people, December is the season of waiting. For Christians, it is the Advent season, a time when they remember the birth of Jesus, recall his message, and then wait with clear expectation that Christ will come again. Often, it is forgotten that “Christ” is not a last name or a family name, it…
Read MoreConnecting to Each Other: How to Practice Silence Part 3
We all know this: finding and capturing silence these days is extremely difficult. We live in our culture — noisy, filled with distractions. It is a commodified culture that values things over people and nature. In the past, it was a bit easier. Now we have to be intentional and deliberate and choose to practice…
Read MoreConnecting to Each Other: Practice Silence Part 2
Practicing silence can do so much to heal us and make us whole as individuals, and as a society. But this is the thing: Silence is hard to come by-especially these days and in this culture! There is so much noise inside and outside of our heads. We live in a culture that commodifies everything…
Read MoreHow Do We Want to be Memorialized as a Nation?
What we as a nation memorialize says a lot about what we value, how we want to be remembered, and how we want to step into the future as a community of people. Did you know that the Confederate monuments were built between 1890 and 1950? And the era coincides exactly with the era of…
Read MoreGeorge Floyd-We Need Each Other
I cannot be quiet while my country bleeds. Growing up in the sheltered white culture of western Massachusetts, love of flag and country was instilled in me, not just as a special Fourth of July event but through the example of my father, a World War II veteran. “Liberty and justice for all” was not…
Read MoreSoul Happy
The poet Rumi writes: no one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy. Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil away from the face of God. If there is a face of God, it is Eden, one of our youngest customers at six months old. (She may not be the one that…
Read MoreWe Can Start Now
Father Richard Rohr is a world-recognized ecumenical teacher, and someone I admire very much. With so much horror showing itself in our country, our society and in the world at large, I often think of one of Father Richard’s quotes. He says this: “Christianity is a lifestyle – a way of being in the world…
Read MoreInhabit Like Bonnie
One of my goals in life is to walk completely around Waban Pond like my dog-friend Bonnie. Bonnie is a sensate being who is completely at home walking around the pond. She fully inhabits her body as she circles the pond sniffing the various smells in leafy nooks and crannies, marking her territories, tasting the…
Read MoreChanting for Care of Soul
In our culture, there is a lot of talk about self-care. One of the ways I take care of myself and my soul is by chanting. Now I know what you may be thinking – candles, bells, Gregorian monasteries, Buddhist monks, dark medieval churches, new-age crystals, hippies-there are a lot of images that come to…
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