Every year members of our parish have written daily Lenten meditations for the benefit of members of the parish who are seeking to travel with others and go deeper into their own prayer and meditation during this holy season. This year, given the varieties of time, life, and space we each inhabit, we have not… Continue reading Lent With Evelyn Underhill
Lord of All Pots and Pans and Things . . . make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates. - Brother Lawrence {1614-1691} Dear Friends, I hope that you are well during these weeks of Epiphany leading toward Lent. Occasionally I come across a good book that I find… Continue reading Meeting Old Friends On The Way
Troop 44 in Laurel, Mississippi was one of the signature Blue Ribbon Troops of the Pine Burr Council in the Mississippi association of The Boy Scouts. Inside our little Scout Hut, draped on every wall, were long ropes filled with the blue ribbons awarded at the campouts and jamborees throughout each year. The first campouts… Continue reading A Living Handbook
He showed me a little thing the size of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, and to my understanding it was as round as a ball. I looked at it and thought, ‘what may this be?’ and I was answered generally thus, ‘it is all that is made’. I marveled at how it… Continue reading Your World in the Palm of Someone Else’s Hand
Some of my first language and conversation about discovering an inner landscape of prayer came through the poems in my high school Norton Anthology; yes, the one that was thick as the fabled Sears Catalogue of yesteryear. One voice caught me from the start – William Butler Yeats, a sort of Irish, Revolutionary, New-Age mystic… Continue reading The Choice
The Carpenter's Nail 