“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Author Archives: heather choate davis
On This We Can Agree
“By far the best way I know to engage the religious sensibility, the sense of awe, is to look up on a clear night. I believe that it is very difficult to know who we are until we understand where and when we are. I think everyone in every culture has felt a sense ofContinue reading “On This We Can Agree”
The Gift is not Grace Kelly
Every time I teach, I learn. So it was this weekend when I was in the middle of a talk on Loaded Words. I was telling the story of a dear friend who had come to faith about the same time as me. She had fallen in love with our church community and served itContinue reading “The Gift is not Grace Kelly”
Into The Deep
When I used to teach Junior Great Books to middle school kids I would train them not to answer a question too quickly. Put your hand down. Sit with it. You can’t possibly have something thoughtful to say that quickly. Wait a minute. Wait 30 seconds. See if something beyond your first impulse rises toContinue reading “Into The Deep”
This Lent I’m giving up Lent
When I first came to faith I was excited to make all the spiritual practices my own. Every year, I would choose something to forgo. At first I gave up the obvious things like wine or sweets, and experienced the feeling of my 6-week successes as transcendence. In retrospect, my delight was probably more akinContinue reading “This Lent I’m giving up Lent”
Heather Choate Davis 