How to Know Truth or Beauty — by Brenda Ueland

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self. Don’t think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers. Remember how wonderful you are, what a … Continue reading →

Morning Fog

(picture by Denver Post)      It’s 11:00pm on Thursday night, July 19th 2012.  You’re standing in line to buy your ticket, trying to look inconspicuous while the bulges from your pockets give away the twizzlers and raisinettes you are attempting to sneak into the theater.  But you don’t care! This is it – the night you and your friends … Continue reading →

Food for Thought

I get these little excerpts emailed to me everyday from Inward/Outward. Tell me what you think:   Spiritual Connection Thich Nhat Hanh Humans have been trying to fill the hole within ourselves by looking outside of ourselves. We were taught to look outside, to external manifestations to meet our needs, to find out who we … Continue reading →

Community

 (photo by LindsNicole–Me !!) Afraid Dorothee Soelle We are afraid of religion and of the community that goes hand in hand with it. It is difficult to control…. To pray, to experience common aspirations, to share with one another our fears as well as our hopes–such acts we find constricting…indeed quite unappealing. Prayers and songs … Continue reading →

Oh she’s a gold digger!

It’s funny. The older I get, the more I realize how little I know.       Each sphere of life is flooded with different opinions, beliefs and answers, all vying for the number one spot of being deemed as TRUTH.  In schools, teachers and administrators spend hours discussing the best way to teach reading:      “We … Continue reading →

To Live Courageously

Dave Smith Courage is exhibited when someone strikes out into unfamiliar territory where few if any have yet gone, and helps pioneer a new way of working and serving. [They] blaze new trails despite what everyone else around them is doing, and whether or not others join, they do what they see is right, at … Continue reading →

Source: Sabbaths 1998 VI…

Source: Sabbaths 1998 VI

The Gift is Balanced
Wendell Berry

 

Nothing
is given that is not
Taken, and nothing taken
That was not first a gift.
The gift is balanced by
it’s total loss, and yet,
And yet the light breaks in,
Heaven seizing its moments
That are at once its own
and yours.

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