July 2014 – The Daily Sip

A revolutionary line in a revolutionary prayer

A REVOLUTIONARY PRAYER Give us this day our daily bread. It rolls of the tongue so easily. The phrase just flows and tumbles out of our mouths like water flowing over pebbles and, some days, like rubble tumbling from a demolition dump truck. Give us this day our daily...

ingredients

The ingredients of a life are important. Last night as I made dinner, I watched as Cass and I assembled the ingredients for our super. He prepped the pans while I cut the Chanterelle mushrooms. Then he diced the fresh sage and I got the fresh Gnocchi into boiling...

dynamos and dinner

Jesus' energy is often referred to by the Greek word "dynamos" which refers to the released energy which makes something happen. It is how we get the words dynamite, dynamic and dynamism. Dynamos is a particular kind of energy in that it is creative and not destructive. Even Dynamite...

goat cheese and quietness

This is my new friend Pavel. He is a purveyor of fine cheeses. We became friends because we both love good cheeses and we spent an enjoyable afternoon at the farmer's market discussing cheeses. Fresh vegetables, cured meats and cheese are an ancient source of life. As the first churches...

Spirituality 401: belief has more power than releif (The bearded saint)

This is Saint Wilgefortis The image comes from a side chapel in the Loretto, a fantastical palace which was a place of pilgrimage for 17th and 18th century baroque pilgrims with a particular devotion to Mary and her courage. Its cloisters were never wandered by monks as much as by...

Clementinum

What I notice about the changes of mid-life- that phase of life after 50 years on the planet to which we rather optimistically refer- is that the pressure on my bucket-list is full-on. There are parts of the planet I want to see. All we humans desire is to...

Kaddish

Deep in a corner of Prague's magic and mystery lies a jagged scar like so many in Eastern Europe. It seems so far away. It seems covered up by monitors and iPods, sausages in sour cabbage and broken statues of Stalin. It waits. Elegance personified like a great, grey...

authentic glory

One of the hard aspects of being in Prague is that I do lot like baroque architecture. There is a lot of it. Luckily I like sausage, roasted pig knuckle, potato pancakes and cabbage a lot - and so - all is well. It would be easy to simply...

compassion for God

In a parish church near my apartment in Prague is this side chapel dedicated to Mary in the Grotto. Or perhaps it is dedicated to some woman in a grotto - I could not translate the Czech. Regardless, this image of a saint being visited by God in a...

a pilgrimage to the spark

Saint Vitus Cathedral http://www.history.com/topics/thirty-years-war A pilgrimage to the spark Yellow is the glow of the fire of God and grey are the walls of the cages which seek to confine her. She is able to make life and then let it go and she is able to take life...

Month: July 2014