so be it

Amen means ‘so be it’. Some people think it is a kind of thanks or warmly yours a sign off from prayer that closes the deal an ending signal to round out confidence that a god has listened and will respond. Whether it is or ever has been a part of your...

Merton for 2021

Taking sides. It is the same vocation, the same gratitude. What has died has lately come back to life. I feel at last that I can grow and move forward, and that all life has not been stamped out of my heart.

Just a list of things I am thankful for

The fire that flares up again after long smoldering years elusive but still a reality only if trust how lovely life can be in the everydayness women at fifty learn to let doors close but also open new that appear always there in rooms we’ve not come back to so...

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LIstening deeply each morning I try to carry it into my day. This groundedness this attentiveness to things higher than my crown. I hear here the voices in the head of those slumbering behind walls nearby the clamor of children’s feet down the hallways from my...