Permission

Permission

  “This ordinary time is gifted in its quiet, marked passing Christ slips about calling and baptizing, sending and affirming, pouring his Spirit like water into broken cisterns, sealing cracks and filtering our senses, that we may savor the foolish...
A New Way of Being

A New Way of Being

Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.   from “The Trees” by Philip Larkin “What is all this juice and all this joy?” wrote Gerard Manley...
Patience

Patience

Every day the little boy pulled up the weeds around the seed and sprinkled the ground with water. But nothing came up. And nothing came up. Everyone kept saying it wouldn’t come up. Ruth Krauss, The Carrot Seed Every year around Thanksgiving I buy one of those...