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Prayers for Graduates Graduation is in the news — announced in grade school, high school, college, graduate school, and community newspapers. For families and friends, it's time to congratulate our loved ones. For grad…
Drawing Closer to Others African Wisdom Proverbs are a mirror in which a community can look at itself and a stage on which to expose itself to others. — Patrick A. Kililombe in Towards an African Narrative Theology
On the Edge of a Maybe Happy New Year. Here's a prayer I return to often at moments of transition, beginning, and renewal. It's by Ted Loder from his book Guerillas of Grace.
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…
Everything Flows Buddhist Wisdom Nothing lasts, nothing can be counted on, everything changes. That is another way of saying that we can’t control anything in our world. Everything is continually slipping awa…
Welcome to the Ritual Space Ritual. When you read or hear that word, what does it conjure up for you? For me the word recalls Sundays in the Catholic church of my adolescence with candles and incense and Latin. But not just th…
Christmas and the Great Pregnancy During Advent, we wait for Christmas in the glow of burning candles: flames that stretch up into the darkness, as if in passionate plea. Our spirits burn, too, for we long for fresh manifestations o…
Being Truly Alive Teacher Wisdom Seek always the blue moment. . . . It can happen any time or any place. It is a moment when you are truly alive to the world around you. — Kent Nerburn in Letters to My Son