JUNE 25 – STEM AND ROOTS – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

 The Love we show saves the Love we hide, the way a sprig in sun feeds its unseen root.  Even though I believe in living in the open, parts of me hide. I can’t help it. But what I can help is which parts of me – the open or the hidden – run my […]To access this...

JUNE 23 – FAME OR PEACE – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

“Rather the flying bird, leaving no trace, than the going beast, marking the earth.” Fernando Pessoa Much of our anxiety and inner turmoil comes from living in a global culture whose value drives us from the essence of what matters. At the heart of this is the...

JUNE 22 – SPIRITUAL FISHING – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

 Honesty is the net by which we fish the deep.  Though we are taught to make plans and keep to them, and though we work our way through predesigned courses of study to receive credentials and degrees, our attempts at real living don’t happen this way. For me, finding...

JUNE 21 – THE PRESENCE OF GOD – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

 looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.  Consider how the sun continually lights our daily world yet we cannot see light except in what it touches. Though the sun burns constantly and holds everything...