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Always a Beginning
New Year's is my favorite holiday. It's a day to do rituals, count blessings, and set intentions. Here's a favorite poem for today.
Nothing Is Ever Lost
Always there is a beginning —
a n…
A Prayer about Climate Change and Wildfires
Creator of trees, fire, wind, and warmth, You have given us the capacity to feel deep compassion for places and beings affected by wildfires. In 2012, Colorado suffered from a record-breaking wildfi…
A Prayer for the Change-Makers in America
July 4 is Independence Day in the United States. Many Americans have mixed feelings about this day. As our friends at the Network of Spiritual Progressives wrote several years ago:
"Faced with Ju…
A Prayer about Our Use of Cars
Lord of Life, we confess that we are in the habit of using our cars too much and this has had a bad effect on the environment and on our health.
Study: A University of Michigan study published in…
"T" is for Transformation
So you must not be frightened . . . if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. Y…
What It Takes to Say "Yes" to Life
We are big fans of Victor M. Parachin, author of Eastern Wisdom for Western Minds and Eleven Modern Mystics and the Secrets of a Happy, Holy Life. In his blog dharmaroundup.com, he shares the follow…
Transformation Ritual
There’s power to writing by hand. The physical action reaches deep into yourself. It takes time, leaves you identifiable, and it’s personal and intimate. As Yale psychologist Paul Bloom said in …
Threshold Ritual
I recently had the honor to lead a surprise "Prayerful Birthday Celebration" for a dear friend of mine who turned 60. I worked with her husband and children to craft a meaningful service with music …
The Pandemic as Portal
I often return in moments of questioning to a quote from Arundhati Roy: "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." Roy is an Indian novelist, …
The Next Revolution in Digital Technology: Part 1
We are entering the Telemetric Age.
The Internet is 25 years old and always evolving. The Pew Research Center Internet Project in collaboration with Elon University's Imagining the Internet Cent…