I think it was Meister Eckhart who suggested that, when we don’t know what to pray, we begin with “thank you.” I seem to be having many conversations lately about retirement. Even my younger sisters are beginning to count not only the years but the months. I hope to retire from teaching sometime in the […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg] While reading Jeffrey Levine’s blog, I came across this youtube video of a flash mob in Som Sabadell, Spain, in Jeffrey Levine’s blog (http://jeffreyelevine.com/). It made me weep.
“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.” -Florida Scott Maxwell I spent the afternoon visiting with my brother and sister-in-law. They live about an hour away from us, but […]
“Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinctions between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that same eternity which it is said God himself inhabits.” -Frederick Buechner I’ve shared this quote before, and as it happens to be written […]