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A cozy, empty hut in the forest
We Keep Each Other Happy Like two lovers who have become lost In a winter blizzard And find a cozy, empty hut In the forest, I now huddle everywhere With the friend. God and I have built an immense...
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Life, food, air
It’s the really hungry who can smell fresh bread a mile away. For those who know their need, God is immediate – not an idea, not a theory, but life, food, air for the stifled spirit and the beaten,...
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The body was even scarier
Interesting thoughts by Margaret Atwood on ‘dirty words': The bad ones in French are the religious ones, the worst ones in any language were what they were most afraid of and in English it was the...
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Window
The familiar face of the person we live with, the quality of their steadfast covenant love, can suddenly become a window through which the face of the God who loves us in and through them shines....
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Kneeling at our feet
To quote Malcom Guite one more time, here’s an excerpt from his poem ‘Maundy Thursday’, also published in The Word in the Wilderness: In vain we search the heavens high above, The God of love is...
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Two poets on the burning bush
… Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as...
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Tsimtsum and the coming into being of the other
Henri Nouwen, in The Wounder Healer, quotes James Hillman, who talks about the Jewish mystical doctrine of Tsimtsum, noting that God as omnipresent and omnipotent was everywhere. He filled the universe...
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The one and only test
The one and only test of a valid religious idea, doctrinal statement, spiritual experience or devotional practice [is] that it must lead directly to practical compassion. If your understanding of the...
View ArticleOf spiritual rebels, untamable hearts and a God who is bigger than religion
Here is another instalment of thoughts from Krista Tippett’s book Becoming Wise. On religion or religiosity: Certain kinds of religiosity turned themselves into boxes into which too little light and...
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God is the greatest question
John O’Donohue God is the most passionate presence in the universe. … there is not a stitch of utilitarianism or functionalism in God. … God surges and flows and is wild. This aspect of God’s...
View ArticleBathed in the silence of God
Without the mystical, we are left without the full understanding or meaning that could exist. We can neither fully see, nor fully hear, the otherness of the divine without a fully developed sense for...
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