“Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.” Father Thomas Keating A hardness we can’t see, cold and rigid, begins to form between us and the world, the longer we stay silent about what we need. It is not even about getting what we need,...
“I thought I could become wise, but it is much beyond me. Far away is all that has come into being and very, very deep. Who can find?” – Ecclesiastes, 7:24-25 Humility, which comes from the word humus, the soil, offers more than a bowed head. It gives us a connection...
“Maybe that’s why I want to touch people so often—it’s only another way of talking.” Georgia O’Keefe I was aching and vulnerable, feeling far from home, when, through the harsh shore wind, I saw a large rock surrounded by the rough churned-up sea. The rock was covered...
“We are here to live out loud.” Emile Zola Early on, we know enough to cry and sound our way into the world; this is the primary purpose of voicing ourselves. Whatever comes out becomes a lifeline, a vein of expression by which we affirm, again and again, that we are...
“To see takes time.” Georgia O’Keeffe While running in May, I saw a neatly trimmed hedge, and sprouting briskly through its symmetry were scraggly blue flowers wildly obeying no form. It made me smile, for I have spent many years resisting being pruned and shaped. I...
