Liz sorensen Wessel
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Days 15-16 A Cup of Loving Kindness
God is love. Various Faith traditions hold distinct beliefs and images for God, but one unifying source is an all-inclusive love, an expansive circle that includes all that lives. God is a mystery and beyond our ability to ever fully… Continue reading
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Days 352-365 Come.. Peace…
Excerpt from the beautiful poem Amazing Peace by Maya Angelou We beckon this good season to wait a while with us.We, Baptist and Buddhist, Methodist and Muslim, say come.Peace.Come and fill us and our world with your majesty.We, the Jew… Continue reading
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Days 345-346 Softening to Life
As Christmas draws near, we can prepare our hearts to celebrate the birth of Christ, of Love in our midst. As a people of various cultures, faiths and family traditions, we enjoy partaking in the holiday festivities. No one can… Continue reading
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Days 338-339 A Constancy of Purpose
“Skin had hope, that's what skin does. Heals over the scarred place, makes a road.” ~ Naomi Shihab Nye (from 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East.) I write to you in the early hours of the morning.… Continue reading
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Days 331-332 The Best Times
When we gather together with friends and family the best times are when the stories start flowing. Remembrances of times shared, daring adventures, unfathomable risks in youth that we lived to tell about, the good and crazy times, as laughter… Continue reading
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Days 324-325 “Every Breath We Breathe A Prayer”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” —Meister Eckhart What are we learning from our experiences of living through this pandemic? I imagine for many of us we… Continue reading
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Days 299-300 There Is A Season
“Tears are prayers too. They travel to God when we cannot speak.” Unknown Autumn days of golden hues, honey dripped leaves burnt orange and blazing red, culminating in her magnificent essence. You watch as her leaves feather softly to earth,… Continue reading
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Days 285-286 Living In The Shadow of Death
Nature has so much to teach us about life. The changing of the seasons, the turning of leaves, shorter days and longer nights. Autumn especially reminds us of life's ever-changing movements. The ebb and flow and the beautiful continuity of… Continue reading
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Days 281-282 On The Other Side of The Window
"I've decided to quit believing in death…" people will deny anything these days so, I have decided to join the practice of dismissing things that we’ve been told are true I have decided to quit believing in death ~… Continue reading