Breeched And Waiting For Birth

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How can our metaphorical feet be unbound so that we can journey toward God on two strong feet? Characters cannot change their own stories. No matter what the movies would have us believe, we are

Unbind the Feet

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Winter is best for breaking bones.             Cold weather numbed the senses and so they waited. When winter arrived, the mother took her four-year-old daughter into the back bedroom where a basin of herbs was

An Easter Poem

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Yesterday was bleak, even bleaker than the day before precisely because it was the day after. And dreary days of loneliness loomed ahead of us. Yesterday was bloated with grief, An abscess in the soul

The Captivated Life

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The abundant life is the captivated life, the full life, the good life. The captivated life is the Godward life where God is the fixed point of the healthy imaginative vision. Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1328)

Sacramental Attunement

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Life is about taking risks. By risks I do not mean jumping out of airplanes, playing chicken with a train, biking across America, or even chasing elephants. The risk I suggest is far greater and

Risking Oblivion

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Rarely do our actions reflect thoughtful, calculated choice. They are typically the product of how we imagine the world and our place in it. For good or for ill, the imagination and the story it

Life As A Night Terror

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                    Imagine this: Night Terrors. I was eleven. I dreaded the night time and so a visceral and physical something thickened in my belly and chest

The Crane’s Claw

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                    The imagination, overloaded as it is with sensual pleasure and distraction, needs a touchstone, a frame of reference by which to be anchored. Remember the