My Spiritual Musings

A long time ago a spiritual advisor of mine suggested that it’s a good practice rewrite the 23rd psalm in words that fit whatever the current situation is.  I was drawn to do so this week.. Divine Love is all of our shepherds.  None of us lack anything. Love makes all of us lie down in green pastures. Love leads us all beside still…
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These “viral” times seem to be made of Uncertainty.  But when I really think about it, it’s just that the illusion of certainty has gone away.  Certainty has never been a given – it’s just that when Life seems to flow in a predictable way, I start to count on things being a certain way. I have seen things swept…
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I ran across on old journal this morning.  I was thinking about the times we’re in now, and somehow that got me to reviewing past times.  There I found a quote from my son when he was 13 years old.  I had asked him how he would explain God to little children, and he said “it’s the best things that…
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                                       Happy Love Day! Although Valentine’s Day is commercialized to be mostly about couples – except in grade school, when we gave those cute little cards to all our classmates – I think we miss the point when we don’t include ourselves in…
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Greetings, Friends! I want to share a prayer with you that I received from a wonderful friend of mine.  She delivered it to me when I most needed it.  When I was surrounded by my own resistance to what is. It’s called The Welcoming Prayer, written by Fr. Thomas Keating and embraced by the Centering Prayer community. I have made a few…
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   I heard a speaker today, talk about the importance of all of us keeping dreams going. She spoke of how we all need to have dreams that we put forth in the world, in order to keep them alive and to have hope for the future.  She told this story of how Dr. King was on stage at the…
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