sitting by my backyard pond one day last week, i sprinkled some flakes of food across the surface of the water and watched curiously as the fish rose hungrily toward my charity. they appeared to me to be much slimmer than they were last autumn, when they could take or leave my offerings, now [...]
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year end reflection
Posted in articles on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
re searching shame
Posted in articles on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend, exhausted physically and emotionally, I climbed into bed where my husband lay asleep and found myself uttering these words through my tears, “I just want to be normal”. To which he responded blearily, thinking, I am certain, that he was helping some part of me that was wanting to diminish and deny the [...]
love feast
Posted in articles, love feast on April 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus Christ, your light shines within us. Let not my doubts or my darkness speak to me.
Jesus Christ, your light shines within us. Let my heart always welcome your love.
I could stop right there, because these words express quite simply yet profoundly what Love Feast means to me. Love Feast is for me a time [...]
spirituality and the sexual healing journey
Posted in articles, spirituality and the sexual healing journey on December 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
‘one moment your life is a stone in you, the next a star’ –Rilke
Spirituality, from the Latin root, spirare, meaning to breathe, is that which is vital to our being alive. It animates us. It quickens us. It brings that which is essential deep into our beings where it can be integrated, and allows that [...]
money doesn’t grow on trees
Posted in articles, money doesn't grow on trees on August 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The winter field behind my home is flat and barren, save the twisted skeleton of a gnarled and aged tree. She grows along a run, which fills only with the springtime thaw or when the heavy laden summer sky lets loose at once, as if it has held back its anger far too long, like [...]
abortion
Posted in articles on October 29, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Enclosed you will find a very personal essay struggling with the issue of abortion, an issue that keeps alternately tapping me on the shoulder/kicking me in the gut this election season. I have watched my teenage daughter try to come to terms with this amidst the fierce divisiveness, and black /white line-in-the-sand drawing, the on [...]
Boundaries of Love?
Posted in boundaries of love on October 20, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I got to thinking about the idea that, if each of us remains conscious of our own connection to divinity (that is, stays in our place of loving), we will never experience the sense of disconnection from one another that so haunts our experience here. This theory posits that, by knowing our connection to [...]
