The present moment is an invitation to regain a sense of life as dialogue, as conversation in which each and all discover the best of themselves and of one another. And the world knows its humanity.
Believing is the energy that moves hearts and minds to transformed life.
“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.” ~ Rumi
Words at their best are the pale echo of God’s Word to us. To be set before people and asked to speak a word that will comfort or rouse, heal or encourage as needed, is a frightening call. Yet fear is not its fuel.
Here may be found words I have strung together in church, in teaching, in commentary over the events of the world for more than four decades. They have been written and spoken in vastly different circumstances. Yet there may be themes that occur and recur over time and in a wide variety of places. The recognition of those themes may be in the inner ear of the reader.
Poems sing to us, and sometimes we to them.
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” ~ Emily Dickinson