My faith life has recently taken a new and surprising turn, but then, this has happened before.  Looking back, I can see that my path has been like the Mouse Ride at an amusement park; racing straight ahead in one direction, then an abrupt turn at right angles in another ...

  We live in a society which is dedicated to twosomes: two hands, two feet, two breasts, two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, two knees, two thighs--one could go on.  And then there is the story of Noah on the ark and how all the animals came in two by two--seemingly fulfilling some idea of perfection, and, of course, the possibility of ...

             How often are we told to rest in silence?  That God’s language is silence?  There’s a part of me that utterly believes this, and I use this wisdom in my prayer life—stilling my heart, silencing my racing thoughts, erasing my “to-do” list from my mind.  ...

Any other Cat in the Hat fans out there? As mentioned in a former blog post, I'm on a year-long focused discussion with myself and others about what I  (and probably others?!) might be afraid of when it comes to the silence of  slowing down, stopping the chatter and the need for busy-ness, and the need to feel like life ...

Richard Rohr says it better than I ever could:   The Need for Silence We don’t know how to take joy in simple things anymore because, frankly, we are sated. You and I have had so much thrown at us! Unless we choose to deliberately under-stimulate ourselves, I don’t think we can reasonably talk about spirituality. We don’t really taste, ...