ignorance

found here

Ignorance: a state in which a person lacks knowledge

& is unaware of something.

easier said than done

"Dwell not on the thoughts

and shortcomings of others;

instead, seek clarity about your own."

- Buddha

how does an apple ripen?

"God is like the air we breathe.
Perhaps that is why the deeper
we grow in the prayerful awareness
of the Divine presence in our lives,
the less we actually say with words
and the more we simply

breathe and enjoy it.
How does an apple ripen?
It just sits in the sun."

Thomas Merton

God is not Antartica

God is not a continent, like Antarctica, lying off somewhere, inert, without relation to human life till some Scott or Amundsen or Byrd finds him. God is not a mountain peak to which travelers must go and which they climb step by step. God is like the air we breathe or the earth beneath our feet. To discover God is simply to awaken to reality. It is like a plant discovering the sun and the rain that drew it from the earth or like children discovering the parents who gave them birth and love and nurture. Luther A. Weigle

lifetime of love

"Love at first sight
is easy to understand;
it's when two people

have been looking at each other
for a lifetime
that it becomes a miracle."
Amy Bloom


Octavio Ocampo photo from here
what do you see?

prayer of st. brendan

Help me to journey beyond the familiar

and into the unknown.

Give me the faith to leave old ways

and break fresh ground with You.

Christ of the mysteries, I trust You

to be stronger than each storm within me.

I will trust in the darkness and know

that my times, even now, are in Your hand.
Tune my spirit to the music of heaven,

and somehow, make my obedience count for You.

Prayer of St. Brendan, Irish Contemplative - found here
Art by James Christensen found here

Springtime God

"I love the image of a 'Springtime God.' Isn't God always in the growing season with us? Isn't everything that happens in life simply seeding something to come- and isn't all of it God? But if that's true, the question is, then, Are all our thoughts new seeds of life to be pursued? Because, if so, then I am being called on and I am, as usual, reluctant to go."

Joan Chittister, Called to Question, p.188