When my son Graham was in college he started his own quiet Thanksgiving tradition, writing a little thank-you note—or rather, a thank-you email—to a teacher or coach or mentor who had made a lasting impact on his life. I didn’t know about this tradition until many years later but the beauty and simplicity of itContinue reading “A Legacy of Thanks”
Category Archives: Art as a Window to the Divine
Oh, the places you’ll go….
Over the past five months or so, I’ve been in something of a transition. First there was an intentional Wadi Cherith season, rooted in the just-rest-and-wait- and-stay-out-of-view example of the prophet Elijah. Then there was the nudge, on Christmas night, to plan a pilrimage to the Isle of Iona, Scotland this Easter. Then there wasContinue reading “Oh, the places you’ll go….”
Word
I, who live by words, am wordless when I try my words in prayer. All language turns To silence. Prayer will take my words and then Reveal their emptiness. The stilled voice learns To hold its peace, to listen with the heart To silence that is joy, is adoration. The self is shattered, all wordsContinue reading “Word”
When We Don’t Know How to Pray
So Teresa of Avila & Martin Luther walk into a bar….
Two years ago this month, I spent a glorious five days at my favorite Benedictine monastery learning more about a 16th-century Carmelite nun who reformed much of the monastic community of her day by training the women—and then many of the men—in prayer. Not the verbal kind of prayer but the practice of meditation, contemplation,Continue reading “So Teresa of Avila & Martin Luther walk into a bar….”
Heather Choate Davis 