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Lectio: March 28, 2020. From Anne Voegtlen
Text It is clear to all who dwell in Egypt that it is through the monks that the world is kept in being and that through them also human life ...
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In Days Like These
Christine Dudley wrote this poem and shares it with us-- In days like these it’s good to listen to birdsong that awakens with the dawn and find simple pleasures in ...
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Doulas to the World
I wrote this several years ago--but it seems a good thing to post again--td For all creation is groaning in birth pangs together… Romans 8:22 It’s like I’m a Carmelite ...
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Keep Within
Keep within, And when they say, “Look here,” or “Look, there is Christ.” Go not forth; for Christ is within you. --George Fox, Quaker mystic Everywhere we look, there ...
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Norma Collier
I am speaking today not simply for myself but for the contemplative group which has been gathering monthly here in the Kootenays for the last twelve years. And I bring ...
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Whatever you call it…
Nobody asks me to pray for them anymore. Most of what I hear these days is some variation on the phrase, “Please send good energy.” Is this just my friends ...
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Contemplative Certitude
About twenty years ago, I had a hissy fit at God. The trigger for this event was the death of a friend’s son; in my eyes, a particularly cruel and ...
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Our Interests, by Anne Voegtlen
The following was written by Anne Voegtlen as a response to one of the lectio passages from the fall retreat. Our Interests “Let each of you look not to your ...
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We Move and We Fall, Anne Voegtlen
The following was written by Anne Voegtlen as a response to one of the lectio passages from the fall retreat. We Move and We Fall “He would move on a ...
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If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.”
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
Your heart knows the way, run in that direction.
–Rumi