…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…”
Category Archives: Wisdom
Lay Back the Darkness
Sometimes the only way to heal the blues is to sing them. Thank you, Kate Campbell, for healing so many hearts along the way….
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”
A second visit to The Seven Storey Mountain
This passage, written through Merton’s childhood eyes before he’d ever been inside a church or thought seriously — if at all — about God, speaks volumes about how our cultural landscape reflects the big picture. As we read this, we might consider what’s been lost when the keystone of our towns is a Costco orContinue reading “A second visit to The Seven Storey Mountain”
A visit to the The Seven Storey Mountain
I’m not sure why it has taken me so long to actually get to reading Thomas Merton’s autobiography. It became a best-seller upon its release in 1948 and has remained in constant publication since then, translated into 40 languages. Merton’s life began in France among artists, was lived out in a Trappist monastery in Kentucky,Continue reading “A visit to the The Seven Storey Mountain”
Heather Choate Davis 