"And now let us believe in the long year that is given to us new, untouched, full of things that have never been."
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Taking the Long View
"And now let us believe in the long year that is given to us new, untouched, full of things that have never been."
Sunday, January 5, 2014
It's all I have to bring today
It's all I have to bring today--
This, and my heart beside--
This, and my heart, and all the fields--
And all the meadows wide--
Be sure you count--should I forget
Some one the sum could tell--
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.
~Emily Dickinson
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Going Home
The words of the well-known Christmas song “I’ll Be Home
for Christmas” are familiar to all of us.
The reality and mystery of Christmas is about leaving
home to find a home.
During this Christmas season we follow Mary and Joseph as
they leave their home to go to Bethlehem. There in the city known as the “House
of Bread,” their child Jesus is born.
There in a stable which housed livestock, the Living Word
babbled like every other baby. There the Word of God took our humanity and made
his home among us – inside the same flesh
and blood that make us who we are.
Because of him the shepherds leave their flocks to follow
the invitation of the angels, Wise Men do not return to their homeland
but follow the promise of a star, and Mary and Joseph take flight into Egypt so
that their baby can be saved from harm.
This Christmas let us not be afraid to leave what is
comfortable and to stretch out into unfamiliar terrain to find God still living
among us – still making a home among us in unfamiliar faces and the most
unlikely places.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Merry Christmas
The Way of Wisdom, the way made visible in Jesus, is the
way of justice, the way of
fairness and mutuality that treats
all beings with respect.
~ Love of Eternal Wisdom #139, Saint Louis de Montfort, revisioned
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro
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