I’d forgotten author and guide Edward Hays. If anything, in this odd 40 day journey of authors with significance to me and my life story, I’m grateful to re-meet this wild holy man. His book, Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim (1989) is dog-eared. For years, decades, I shared his poems…
“So my thread is spinning new course. And my thread, like my dreams, never lies, never leads me astray. Still I cannot stop thinking how brave I will have to be to follow it.” — Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees introduced me to author Sue Monk Kidd. Next…
“If we look at Jesus–if we truly see what Jesus is about–we will see what God is about. God has to do with love and connection and freedom and compassion and service and reaching out. God is about inclusivity and joy-filled life. God is for healing and forgiveness and reconciliation…
March 5, 2014, Ash Wednesday I did not go to Mass today. I wanted too–it’s been awhile. Recalling decades back, 1987 perhaps. That’s 27 years ago. That Lent I returned to communion. Faced myself full-on in the mirror. Maybe it was a year before, or later, God knows. Time is…