“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.”
—Mary Oliver
What would you like to be able to say about your life as it nears the end?
Author: clfuu
Candles of Joy and Sorrow
Many religious traditions light candles in prayer—memorializing the dead, asking for healing, expressing gratitude for something special. Light reaches out, expressing our conviction that we touch, and are touched by, far more that our hands can hold.
Who or what would you like to light a candle for today?
Beyond Real
Perhaps you might go to such a place only in your imagination—a place of sacred stones and grass that is the green of life itself. But your life could be richer for that imaginary journey into beauty and peace.
Where do you like to go in your imagination?
All We Can Do
“Prayer begins where human capacity ends.” —Marian Anderson
What spiritual practice helps you when there is nothing that you can do to fix or change things?
A Waiting Web
Web-weaving spiders don’t hunt down their prey. They carefully prepare their web, and then they simply wait to see what will arrive, taking everything as it comes.
What have you achieved through a combination of preparation and patience?