I sit in meditation seeking stillness Yearning for inner peace Wanting to connect with the One who...
Poetry
How Will You Find Solace in Autumn’s Embrace?
The Lake senses it’s coming. Beachcombers bid farewell and journey homeward. The sun migrates...
Coming Home
Coming Home It’s windy on Lake Michigan today. White-capped waves scatter mist high...
Busy Doing Nothing
What’s the Most Useless Usefull Thing You Can Do?
Until the Fog Lifts—Listening for the Voice of God
Perhaps I am like that freighter. Surrounded by fog. Lost in the mist of my life. Echoing my heart’s desire. Listening for a God I know is there, but whom I cannot see.
The Mind Follows the Body and Unites in the Heart
The mind follows the body as the two unite in the heart—the sacred refuge of inner light and love. So, take a breath. Draw your awareness to the beauty of your hands, feet, and chest—the physical body with which God has gifted you.
Say What You Need to Say: I Forgive You
“I forgive you,” three simple words that contain liberation—an inner freedom that surpasses understanding.
Ravish Me, O God
as our relationship with God continues to grow and deepen, we often realize that words can only point to something that is beyond our ability to grasp.
Our connection with the Divine moves beyond an abstract idea or a matter of intellectual belief.
It becomes a real, felt experience with the Source of our Being, who we now feel inside of us in our hearts, like a glowing light, a flow of pure air, or in other ways unique to each of us.
Holy Water, Teach Me How to Flow
Maybe it’s time to stop fighting
time to become like water,
rippling in tide pools,
streaming down riverbeds,
floating around logjams.