"Trust in the slow work of God."~ Tielhard de Chardin Stems and Roots "The love we show saves the Love we hide,the way a sprig in sun feeds its unseen root. Even though I believe in living in the open, parts of me hide. I can't help it. But what I can help is which... Continue Reading →
The patience of vegetables
“Night after night darkness enters the face of the lily which, lightly closes its five walls around itself, and is purse of honey, and its fragrance, and is content ... Continue Reading →
Simple rules
“… imagine the human family as a stand of aspens growing by a river. Though each tree appears to be growing independently, not attached to the others, beneath the soil, out of view, the roots of all the trees exist as one enormous root. And so, like these trees, our soul’s growth, while appearing to... Continue Reading →
The difficult assignment of being who you are
“Become what you already are.”~ St. Gregory of Sinai “To change radically means waking up to reality as it really is, not as we presume it is.”~ The Monks of New Skete, In the Spirit of Happiness No one tells the seed to change. No one would call him incomplete, lazy, disappointing. He just is.... Continue Reading →
Swimming together
Photo credit: Conserve Kid's premature CS20 ending (derailed by a little pandemic) “The goldsaddle goatfish is a beautiful golden fish–similar in size and behavior to a red mullet–vulnerable to numerous larger predators, including humans, within the waters around Hawaii. Divers around the region have recently begun to notice a striking and much larger fish, of... Continue Reading →
