Going Camping!
Going camping is, fortunately for me, a phrase and activity I get to engage in more than the average human. I also get to take other folks out camping more…
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Personal Stories
Coming Home—from Grand Canyon Rafting
When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that’s wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that’s love. Between these two my life turns….
Sprinkling the magic of Awe into the eyes of Children
when all of right mind are asleep
and Awareness and Presence and Silence
wonder through and among tall ancient forest trees
and stalk bedrooms across the lands
like a divine trinity
whispering secrets to whoever will listen
sprinkling the magic of Awe into the eyes of children
Do the Stars Long to Shine?
there is a presence in the beating of your own heart
a primal drum calling you home
like a rain drop returning to the sea.
There is Something Wrong with Here
I returned to the pleasure of
a snuggle while the tea seeped
thinking too of the invitation’s return
“You’re scratchy,” she tells me now
One Coffee Shop Lady Told Another…
Your deep true Self
Arises out of, and is itself
Nothing less than wonder
mystery and awe, the stillness
and the silence
From which you run
A Father’s Lessons on Living and Dying
Through the grace of the stroke Boyd became a man who ‘lost his God.’ Boyd lost his theology. His religion. His beliefs. His need to posses the Truth. A certain kind of resiliency in Boyd was broken and…he found his heart…. It was as if the covers to Boyd’s Bible had fallen open in such a way as to break the books very spine, and he managed somehow to walk out of the story of his One and Only True God.