The Blue Flower

The Soul should always stand ajar That if the Heaven inquire He will not be obliged to wait Or shy of troubling Her ~Emily Dickinson,...

I recently read this thought-provoking start to a blog post: “The story is told of a man named Arenius who lived in the fifth century....

As a child I lived in tune with sensation. I lived out of my body.  As I became a teenager, I began to move out of my body and into my...

Anticipation bubbled all day long on a Friday, reaching its boiling point right about 5pm. Unk would soon be home! By this point in the...

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual teacher, philosopher...

*I am trying something different and exploring writing in a stream of consciousness style in third person omniscient point of view. I'll...

“What was the meaning of life? That was all - a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had...

I grew up memorizing Bible verses both at church and at the Christian school that I attended for junior high and high school. In my...

"Though many of us feel shame when our homes end up in this state, we need to remember that a messy house is not a moral failing, Davis...

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” ~Albert Einstein I have a tendency to second guess my decisions, particularly the big...

This week, I bring you a poem, a blessing, by recently deceased Irish philosopher, theologian, and poet John O’Donohue. If you are not...

Upstairs in our barn hangs a hammock. Upon moving in, all the family, except for me, tested it out, expressing delight that the family...

*This is the second in a two-part series on what it means to be “Framed in Space.” See last week’s essay for the quotation from Anne...

“It is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant – and therefore...

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~Lao Tzu “And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace...

The Mysteries (Part VI) The mysteries remain, I keep the same cycle of seed-time and of sun and rain; Demeter in the grass, I multiply,...

“Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice. Abide in peace in the presence of God, who sees all these evils more clearly than...

“A vexation arises, and our expressions of impatience hinder others from taking it patiently. Disappointment, ailment, or even weather...

My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.” John 4:34, NKJ For many months now, I have felt out of alignment...

"How can you live sweetly amid the vexatious things, the irritating things, the multitude of little worries and frets, which lie all...