After many yearning years of hoping to visit the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, this past All Saints Day (November 1st) I was graciously afforded the opportunity. As I approached the new basilica, designed by the architect, Pero Ramirez Vazquez, I was struck by how the structure created both a hospitable and protecting spirit, as if the church itself attracted you into the embrace of its great mother. …
FREEDOM’S HOME
What does it mean to feel cursed? In a way, to be cursed can mean that there is something seemingly greater than us that wields power over us in such a way that we are deprived of our freedom. Something has a hold on us and we cannot seem to break free. …
The Rose
“What must I do, to tame you?” asked the little prince.
“You must be very patient,” replied the fox. “First you will sit down at a little distance from me–like that–in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing.…
WITHOUT QUESTION
We live in a world that can seem very frightening. If we spend only a moment simply glancing at the headlines or listening to the sound-bytes in the mega-media, we are doused with an overwhelming barrage of news that can incite fear, loathing, anger, despair, and even worse, numbness and indifference. …
Life-ing
Alive is to grow
and die and birth
Human… to know
THAT we are alive
To love abundance
not as an observer
But by making love
Itself entrainment
To wake the dawn
in the new light
Where sight gives sway
to depths of trust
Acting in ways that
know only in faith
Going down deeper
to emergent rising
Stooping to levels
not seen but heard
As One pulse of novelty
vibrates inside darkness
Breaking sometimes gently
often painfully
Borders that protect
only insofar as they admit
Otherness that has somehow
already crossed inside
The stranger within that
risks life in death
Bearing true mind
in kindness of Heart
Embodying the soul
Shared wholly by all
Shall we place
each Other within?!…