8: vocation

8: vocation

Vocation at its deepest level is, ‘This is something I can’t not do, for reasons I’m unable to explain to anyone else and don’t fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.’Parker Palmer I woke with a start at 4am....
7: mysteries discovered

7: mysteries discovered

It is hard and confusing to be uprooted from peace each time you barely get into it. Or rather not to be able to sink completely into unity and simplicity. There is peace too in community, but it has a different, more active rhythm.  Thomas Merton There is no...
6: Just now

6: Just now

Life itself can be thought of as an alphabet by which God graciously makes known his presence and purpose and power among us. Like the Hebrew alphabet, the alphabet of grace has no vowels, and in that sense his words to us are always veiled, subtle, cryptic, so that...
5: Miraculous

5: Miraculous

Walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.Anais Nin Yesterday I walked into a new way of being in the world. I did a live talk on YouTube conjoining creativity and numerology. This may not be huge for some of you reading, but it was huge for me. And...
4: I do my best work naively

4: I do my best work naively

Life is something we need to stop fixing.What makes it unbearable is your mistaken belief that it can be cured.Charlotte Joko Beck Back on track. The bells toll and bring me delight. I realize that can happen no matter what, because I choose this.  They toll the...