Kai-the-dog
Kai-the-dog When you look at me I see God perhaps more than in a chalice silver and crimson red with wine, and more than a paten with ridiculous wafers nobody…
ritual, ceremony and a bad dream
Today I heard Richard Rohr say that the difference between ritual and ceremony is that ritual lets in the darkness. It felt so true that for a few beats I…
Interim Blessing
A friend read this blessing recently, reminding me that John had a blessing for an interim period in his book of blessings and so I pass it along today. It…
exchanging our speeches for silence
It takes great courage to be gentle. And it takes especially great courage to be gentle with our selves. We hold tightly onto the things we have chosen to believe.…
waiting
Kneeling, waiting on God can be infuriating. This image from our Te Deum window over the West (actually south but who’s counting) doors of the cathedral is a detail we…
Glory
The Te Deum window of the cathedral around which a great Antiphonal Organ is being built the week. My favorite writer on the spiritual life, Maggie Ross reveals in The…
To the words between us; and to us between the words!
There is a great creativity possible when we fail. Initially, nobody likes failure. We westerners tend to think that we are failures rather than that we have experienced failure. These…
The Wonder-woman pose: our imago dei
I am reading a wonderful book called Presence by Amy Cuddy as preparation to work I am doing with the House of Bishops in June and a book I am…
“My peace I leave with you…”
In John’s loop-de-loop gospel, everything is entwined and sounds terribly busy. Like the vines of morning glories, Jesus weaves loops of meaning sometimes hard to interpret with sayings like “I…
Wilderness
“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life - that to the white…