Theme “suffering”
Conflict evolution
There is pain in still seeking home after thousands of years
Deep suffering as home is taken away
Yet I commit to a depth of understanding that opens my heart truthfully and allows the hearts of others to open too.
It’s what I’m expected to do.
We pray in a world fractured by violence
We pray in a world fractured by violence.
We pray in sorrow that so many are pitched into a life of suffering and despair by the inhumanity of violent warfare.
We pray for peace in a world without peace.
We pray in sadness that there can be poverty in the midst
Bearing witness matters
This reading first appeared in The Inquirer, Issue 8033, April 2022
On the evening of Holy Thursday, Jesus leads his disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane. (Mark 14:34) Jesus says: ‘My soul is sorrowful, even unto death, stay awake and keep watch with me.’ Like the (above) Sufi call to witness and be fully aware of
Blessing for those who find Christmas difficult
If this time is tough, may you find comfort
amid your sorrow and healing amid your pain.
May you know that you are the light of the world.
Her good god
She lay
Exhausted,
Her good God
Abandoned,
Ravaged by
Her grief
The fragile cloth of her life
Torn and tattered
The tender flesh of her soul
Ripped and bleeding.
And the voice of the abandoned God
Spoke gently
Dropping still dews of quietness*
Into her fevered mind,
And
She
Rested
In the arms
Of her
When the world hurts, a prayer
This originally appeared in The Inquirer, Issue 8041
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Let us join together in a time of prayer and reflection.
Let us turn our minds and our hearts to that which is, for us, sacred, and let us draw ourselves into the
presence of that spirit which some of us call God.
And let us
When the world hurts, a story for all ages
This originally appeared in The Inquirer, Issue 8041
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This is a story about Sam.
Sometimes, Sam feels really sad.
Sometimes, Sam feels really scared.
Just recently, Sam has been feeling
really sad and really scared .
Sam’s only small, and when you’re
small, you can find big feelings a bit
much to deal with.
The
Let be
As the seasons change we can be especially conscious of our spiritual connections, our deepest connection with the world as it changes, our consciousness that the changing season reinforces a sense of the endurance of the earth and the natural world, that these things remain constant while we must go through change.
So we come