Prayers and Reflections in Season
"The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it." ― John Lewis
The above quotation is excerpted from “Together, You can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” by John Lewis, published in the New York Times on July 30, 2020, the day of his funeral.
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On July 21, I’m delighted to be facilitating a Zoom workshop for the Priory Spirituality Center on what makes, repairs, and builds community in the places where we live.
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“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” ― C.G. Jung, The Philosophical Tree
At the Women’s Spiritual Growth Group the other week, we chewed over the questions, Cosmically speaking, where are we headed? Is creation on a trajectory, or are we all just wandering around killing time? Are we going somewhere good, or will it be more like Armageddon followed by nothingness?
Continue reading “The Mind Loves Its Sleep”
I’m at the front of the checkout line at the local drug store, just behind the yellow line, sporting my cherry print pandemic mask. The customer standing at the counter clutches the handles of his rollator—a walker with a seat. He looks to be in his 50’s, but he might be younger. Scraggly beard and hair, a leather pouch with a shoulder strap tucked under one arm. He looks worn down.
Continue reading “Pandemic Pietá”
A litany by Margaret D. McGee, for use on Ascension Day or the Sunday after Ascension Day.
With open hearts, let us offer up our prayers together, saying,
Arise, O God,
Hear our prayer.
Took a walk before lunch. Down Monroe Street, around the corner, along Washington under the trees that line Memorial Field. An older man walked toward me, about a half block ahead along the same sidewalk. He walked slowly with the help of a cane.
Continue reading “Sun After Rain”
Continue reading “The Mysteries of Faith”The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
into an object of affirmation and negation, when in
reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Responsive prayers by Margaret D. McGee, for use during Easter season or for All Saints/All Souls Day.
O God, who made the world and everything in it, we pray with one voice, proclaiming your presence to all the earth.
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Last week, the book blog “A Life Through Books” posted an interview with me that focuses on my writing process. I enjoyed responding to all the questions, especially the last, which asked what comes next.
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A poem for Easter
by
Carolyn Temte
In the Courtyard 