Month: December 2012

“Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always.” ~Willa Cather

“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger — these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to…

A MORNING PRAYER Our Father, Encompass me with joy, for weeping gathers all its gloom against me. Encompass me with love, for the world’s a hating place at times. Encompass me with summer, for there is too much ice in secularity. Encompass me with good news, for the days overwhelm the soul with negativity. Encompass…