A Prayer on Thanksgiving Day, 2024, a la Julian of Norwich
This is surely the most difficult Thanksgiving of my 83 years of spinning around the sun. One shudders and grieves and rages and fears about
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This is surely the most difficult Thanksgiving of my 83 years of spinning around the sun. One shudders and grieves and rages and fears about
[FROM THE ARCHIVE: 9/16/21] Being aware how rarely the divine feminine and Mother Earth and feminine values are invoked in the current presidential goings-on in Milwaukee,
Further evidence of the proto-feminism of Thomas Aquinas includes his reminding his readers on several occasions that the word “Spirit” in Hebrew is feminine (ruah).
We have been meditating on a revolution in values that the return of the Divine Feminine represents. Such archetypes as Mary and the Black Madonna carry
Thanksgiving week is upon us. Even though we are in the midst of a number of wars, it is always right and appropriate that we humans
Dualism is the basis of all war. It creates either/or thinking. Subject/object thinking is necessary for carrying on wars. Mysticism is non-dualism. Julian of Norwich invented the word oneing. How
One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy
Having named the “five supreme joys” within Divinity, Julian tells us that “Christ wants us to rejoice in them, too.” She recognizes three faces in
We are meditating on Joy because in our meditations on Evil, Rabbi Heschel reminded us that holiness is the prime medicine for evil. What is
Yesterday we meditated on the need to dig deep to get to our true self. Sometimes suffering is a gateway to truth. Julian of Norwich
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