READING “Begin” ~ Rumi ~ (adapted by Jose Orez from a version by Coleman Barks in The Soul of Rumi) BEGIN This is now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait…
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READING, Meditation on the Equinox Thomas Rhodes Over our heads, the great wheel of stars shifts, the autumnal (or spring) equinox manifests itself, and for one precious instant darkness and…
Readings: Love is the spirit of this church, and service is its law. This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And…
Reading: From the Hebrew Scripture at Deuteronomy Chapter 30, selected and adapted Deuteronomy 30:15-20 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Adapted. See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death…
“My first step from the old white man . . . was the trees.” Process theologians David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb are quoted as saying, “Indeed, God seems…
“On what is the spiritual response to darkness, and what is darkness?” The three purposes of a spiritual life are to shine out in the midst of surrounding darkness, to…
Reading: “Summer Meditation” by Robert T. Weston No.547 Summer Meditation Now blows the wind with soft, relaxing warmth. The sun beats down The schools are out. Children swarm in the…
King James Bible Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there…
OPENING WORDS: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the…
For many years I have imagined a situation in which, the human race having somehow managed to obliterate itself through a nuclear disaster, or by ignoring the warnings of climate…
