Welcoming the Darkness

Welcoming the Darkness

We’re nearing the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. I didn’t pay much attention to this moment in the year until the holiday season became complicated in my life. Prior to that, it was all anticipation and festivity. But in the past several years, the...
We’re All Just Walking Each Other Home

We’re All Just Walking Each Other Home

There is an ancient form of prayer called Benevolent Gazing. It’s a wordless, silent prayer done with the eyes. It is to look with love wherever we look—at the painted evening sunset, at the man who helps me carry my groceries to my car, at the face of the one in the...