D.H. Lawrence – Belief

Forever nameless Forever unknown Forever unconceived Forever unrepresented yet forever felt in the soul. By: D.H.Lawrence

The Sacrament of Waiting – Macrina Wiederkehr

Slowly she celebrated the sacrament of letting go. First she surrendered her green, then the orange, yellow, and red finally she let go of her brown. Shedding her last leaf she stood empty and silent, stripped bare. Leaning against the winter sky she began her vigil of trust. Shedding her last leaf she watched its journey to …

Meister Eckhart – The Hope of Loving

What keeps us alive, what allows us to endure? I think it is the hope of loving, or being loved. I heard a fable once about the sun going on a journey to find its source, and how the moon wept without her lover’s warm gaze. We weep when light does not reach our hearts. …

Diane Ackerman – A Natural History of the Senses

Reflecting on leaves falling, Diane Ackerman writes: Though leaves lose their green life, they bloom with urgent colors, as the woods grow mummified day by day, and Nature becomes more carnal, mute, and radiant. We call the season “fall,” from the Old English feallan, to fall, which leads back through time to the Indo-European phol, which also …

T.S. Elliott – from Little Gidding

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

Blake – Eternity

Eternity He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise. William Blake

Indigo Girls – Closer to Fine

There's more than one answer to these questions? Pointing me in a crooked line. ?And the less I seek my source for some definitive? The closer I am to fine.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge – To Nature

It may indeed be phantasy when I Essay to draw from all created things Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings; And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie Lessons of love and earnest piety. So let it be; and if the wide world rings In mock of this belief, it brings Nor …

Rudyard Kipling – The Way Through the Woods

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove …

Prayer of St. Francis

This prayer is often attributed to St. Francis of Assisi although that connection is unproven.  It has been used in many forms and has assisted many in their prayerful journey.  Alcoholics Anonymous uses a form of this prayer in recovery work.  We all need this kind of "recovery". Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is …