Tag: peace

Shalom

Today I leave for a time of deep rest. My dog Sugar whispered to me that I would be ok, always a welcome whisper. She told me to remember to let go of my rage and regrets.  It's ok to be handed a cactus, but one need not keep it...

The Serpent’s Tail

A wreath made from beach findings on Friday Harbor on San Juan Island here, in Puget Sound, in the Salish Sea. Toward the end of the 16th century, a word was coined from the root word “wer” meaning to twist or bend from which the word “wreath” came.  It was...

mistakes

Sometimes things just do not turn out the way we had planned, or even dared to hope. The often-quoted phrase “Compare and despair.” is a valuable reminder to me that when I compare myself and my life to others, despair is usually the only result.  Needless suffering.  The thought-version of...

hooded

We all have our themes; things to which we go back over and over again as if those people around us haven’t heard the thousand times we have said that same “old thing he says so often.” We all have those oft repeated mantras which we say so frequently that...

a simple season

(Please excuse the interruption in the Daily Sip.  The Pledge Campaign required every moment of some exhausting  days.  Happy advent - Charles) I watch television with commercials the way a house-cat goes swimming - - that is, infrequently, and with no small amount of annoyance. Recently I was home with...

listen

  "Sometimes it seems as if we do everything possible to avoid the painful confrontation with our basic human loneliness, and allow ourselves to be trapped by false gods promising immediate satisfaction and quick relief. But perhaps the painful awareness of loneliness is an invitation to transcend our limitations and...

peace

A blessing A nation at war with itself, peace to you. A people busy, tired and rich, deep peace to you. Couples whose work drives a wedge into their marriage, peace to you. Children whose lives are parentless, peace to you. Men and women who have been betrayed, peace to...

anger and fear

A spiritual guide sat with me yesterday and explained something which I had never previously understood.  Indeed, at 53 very little seems like it could surprise me and yet this did.  It was new information as a human and it shocked me that I was unaware of it, the way...