Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Structure Of Belonging Gratitude for Today, Anticipation for Tomorrow The end of a long year is upon us. The gifts have been plentiful, though at times overshadowed by turmoil. We offer you this last reader for this year, grateful…
Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected “The Guest House” By Jalaluddin Rumi “Every morning a new arrival.” Such is being human, Rumi says. Being embodied, enfleshed, subject to sickness and euphoria, to pain and ecstasy. It is always only from our flesh…
Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Significance Of Place, Structure Of Belonging A Place To Belong At the halfway point of this captivating short film is a central image: grandpa’s foot on the pedal of his dry cleaning machine, next to grandson’s foot on the pedal…
Invitation, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Significance Of Place Autumn Colors and Autumn Chill “And yet no leaf or grain is filled by work of ours; the field is tilled and left to grace.” So writes Wendell Berry. These pictures from The Atlantic captivated…
Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Structure Of Belonging Community In Reflection The world is loud right now. The volume taxes our bandwidth for paying attention to and loving (which are the same thing) the people right in front of us. In…
