Cure alters what is; Healing offers what might be. Cure is an act; Healing is a process. Cure acts upon another; Healing shares with another. Cure manages; Healing touches. Cure seeks ultimately to conquer pain; Healing seeks to transcend pain. Cure ignores grief; Healing assumes grief. Cure encounters mystery as a challenge for understanding; Healing … Read more
Look, the world is always ending somewhere. Somewhere the sun has come crashing down. Somewhere it has gone completely dark. Somewhere it has ended with the gun the knife the fist. Somewhere it has ended with the slammed door the shattered hope. Somewhere it has ended with the utter quiet that follows the news from … Read more
It is true that every blessing begins with love, that whatever else it might say, love is always precisely its point. But it should be noted that this blessing has come today especially to tell you it is crazy about you. That it has been in love with you forever. That it has never not … Read more
Call it the waters of salvation or the garlands of gladness. Call it the grave-clothes falling away or call it the loosing of the chains. Call it what binds us together: fierce but fragile but fierce. Call it he will rejoice over you with gladness; call it he will renew you in his love; call … Read more
When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic, Time takes on the strain until it breaks; Then all the unattended stress falls in On the mind like an endless, increasing weight, The light in the mind becomes dim. Things you could take in your stride before Now become laborsome events of will. Weariness invades your … Read more
In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched your desire, Feeling the emptiness growing inside you, Noticing how you willed yourself on, Still unable to leave what you had outgrown. … Read more
May the light of your soul guide you. May the light of your soul bless the work You do with the secret love and warmth of your heart. May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul. May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those Who … Read more
May your body be blessed. May you realize that your body is a faithful and beautiful friend of your soul. And may you be peaceful and joyful and recognize that your senses are sacred thresholds. May you realize that holiness is mindful, gazing, feeling, hearing, and touching. May your senses gather you and bring you … Read more
Joyce Rupp Once upon a time a child of happiness danced upon the land, knew friendship with the earth and celebrated life with her love of solitude and simple things. She grew into a young woman, whose vision of self was clouded, clothed with the complexities of insecurity and the necessity of leaving the hallowed … Read more
Have you heard the music no fingers enter into? Far inside the house entangled music – What is the sense of leaving your house? Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines – but inside there is no music, then what? Mohammad’s son pores over words, and points out this and that but if … Read more
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