A few weeks ago, a pastor-friend shared a question that her four-year-old-son had asked on Facebook: In the beginning, when it was all darkness, did God have all the colors inside? This question was posed in response to the Christian story of Creation coming into being out of darkness. As God spoke the names … Continue reading Our Colorful God
Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred. Now, why not consider A lasting truce with yourself and God. Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels To be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And … Continue reading Now
I've just completed three months in Boston. Three months is a short period of time, but the amount of change in my life, both externally and internally, that has occurred since I left Princeton on June 5 is more than I can comprehend. (Imagine trying to locate yourself and your foundations through multiple earthquakes.) On … Continue reading Questions at Summer’s End
A teacher cannot give you the truth. The truth is already in you. You only need to open yourself — body, mind, and heart — So that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment. If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the … Continue reading The soil and the seeds
If there are a "chosen few" then I am not one of them, if an "elect," well then I have not been elected. I am one who is knocking at the door. I am one whose foot is on the bottom rung. But I know that Heaven's bottom rung is Heaven though the ladder is … Continue reading The Ladder
Since, despite the stern demands of scientist and realist, we will always be supposing, let us suppose that Nature gave the world flowers and birdsong as a language, by which it might speak to discerning humans. And what must we say back? Not just thanks or praise, but acts of kindness bespeaking kinship with the … Continue reading The Voice of Nature
Allegra Lovejoy 