A calming poem by the most recent recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Marie Howe
Tag Archives: Meditation
Finding Sanctuary within the Self
Teasdale’s lovely poem “Sanctuary” finds other ways than the conventional to put us in touch with God.
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Preserved in God’s Golden Sap
In Karr’s spiritual vision, we are like precious insects, preserved in the glowing amber of God’s love.
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Beauty Reflects the Eternal Orchard
Spiritual Sunday I wrote last Sunday about the “centering prayer” workshops that former Sewanee Chaplain Tom Ward is running at the Ayres Spiritual Center in Sewanee. Centering prayer, Tom told us, is “a way of listening to the texts of Scripture as if we were in conversation with Christ and He were suggesting the topics […]
Learning to Love the Desert
In “Ash Wednesday,” T. S. Eliot turns the despair of “Hollow Men” on its head, seeing it not as the end of hope but as the beginning of faith.
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Yield to the Perfect Whole, Upend Your Life
To find a sense of deep connectedness, Emerson tell us we can’t cling to fragments.
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