…so my thoughts about Carl Medearis and Kate Campbell continued, evidently, through the night as I found myself waking with another song in my head. It was the first one I ever listened to on my own repeatedly that had Jesus in it. I’d never heard a song that started out “If you’re ever inContinue reading “The Way Home”
Category Archives: Art as a Window to the Divine
How big is your world?
This old and exceedingly wise commercial did not intend to make people think about God. But it does. It prompts us to ask if we’ve trained ourselves—-perhaps unwittingly—-to live lives tailored to our own jar-sized spaces. If we’ve allowed for God at all, have we only given access to one that might fit into ourContinue reading “How big is your world?”
The Prayer of Thomas Merton…
…as sung by my dear friend Kate Campbell. This song has led me through more murky seasons than I can count. Now, as I find myself sorting through all her old CDs while reading The Seven Storey Mountain, it seems that the divine choreographer is about to bring a new season into being. If you’veContinue reading “The Prayer of Thomas Merton…”
What are you grounded in?
As you move through your day, your week, your life, it’s a question worth asking. Heidi Petersen “To go among the trees”
Becoming Flame
A reading from The Desert of the Heart, a collection of sayings from the 4th-century Desert Fathers: Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and he said to him, “Abba, as far as I can, I say my little office, I fast a little, I pray and meditate, I live in peace and as farContinue reading “Becoming Flame”
Heather Choate Davis 