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"By gracious powers wonderfully sheltered." A Blessing at the turn of the year.
6th Day of Christmas: Gathering the Year.
5th Day of Christmas: Sacred Pause.
4th Day of Christmas: On Journeying together.
3rd Day of Christmas: Following the star.
2nd Day of Christmas: "Do not be afraid!"
1st Day of Christmas: Bring your heart.
May Christmas find you where you are.
Waiting at the Christmas door.
Winter Solitude: In your wintering, peace.
Join our 12 Days of Christmas Contemplations 2024: "Into the depth."
"Create possibility!" Kierkegaard's remedy against despair:
Lighting candles on election night.
I grew up behind the Iron Curtain. America's election evokes the worst and best memories in me.
Election Blues: Hoping against Despair
On Spiritual home coming: Your (mid)weekly blessing with Julian of Norwich.
"Cosmic Partnership:" Hildegard of Bingen on living in harmony with all creation.
"Desire for Solitude" (T. Merton):
Embracing messiness (and grace).
💬 Rays of hope: Sunday Thread.
Sunday read: "There is no Wrath in God".
I got verbally assaulted by a preacher man with the police standing by. Welcome to America!
What about an Inter-dependence Day?
Retreating to the Garden: Monastic Gardens as places of nature, nurture, contemplation, and healing.
When Bliss and Burden intermingle
Gardening with child: Invoking the greening powers.
Searching for home in a vast (and fast) world.
Contemplating motherhood: A mother’s day reflection (not only for mothers):
Walking slowly in a fast paced world.
Whatever you are carrying, love carries it first:
A Time for Waking and a Time for Resting.
“Come, hurry and run…” Life Resurrected
Silent Saturday. Conducting the Pause
Good Friday: Through the t(w)omb.
Maundy Thursday: Come to the table!
Passion Wednesday: Bare branches and a pilgrimage meltdown
Passion Tuesday: "Come bleeding heart..."
Passion Monday. "Come ye daughters, share my mourning..."
Entering Passion week in a pained world.
What to do with Passion Week? Join us for a week of lamentation.
(Re)Introducing Cloister Notes: a letter for dancing monks, wounded healers and weary pilgrims.
Tending our sorrows: Join our Passion Week Consolations 2024 (March 24-31).
Valentines and ashes: A memory and a blessing.
What I am reading: From Meister Eckhart to Substack
Pay Attention to the little things.
"Finding the key inside". Wrapping up the Christmas season
On ice flowers, temper tantrums, and what I learned from MLK about being human:
12 Days Archive: Epiphany Day: Retreating, resting, sharing, good bye-ing
The 11th Day of Christmas. "Are we there yet?"
The 10th Day of Christmas. Redeeming "rationalitas"