Category: Meditations

Prayer does not change God, but it changes [the one] who prays.
—Soren Kierkegaard

How have you been changed by prayer?

“I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help,” writes the Psalmist. Or you might lift up your eyes to the clouds or the moon or the sky at sunset—whatever helps you past the daily grind and into the grace of the beautiful.

Where do you turn your gaze when you need help?

The Day of the Dead is a day of honoring, but not of mourning. It is a time to celebrate the ways in which those who are no longer with us physically are still with us in spirit—in our hearts, in memory and in how we see the world.

What words or phrases do you use that you picked up from someone who is no longer living?

On Halloween we hide our faces behind masks. But really our faces themselves can often cover up our true selves. Only bones never lie.

Where are you your truest self?

So much of the time we are just in transit, amongst strangers as we move as quickly as possible toward our known destinations. But if, as Nelle Morton said, “The journey is home,” then aren’t these random companions on the journey some small part of our family?

Has someone who you just met passing through ever become a friend?