Category: Meditations

Today people in the United States celebrate their country’s independence from English rule.

What do you celebrate gaining independence from?

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
―Mother Teresa

How will you create ripples of change today?

For a river rafter or kayaker, white water is the dangerous part of the river, the place that threatens to throw them overboard to hazards of bone-breaking rocks and even drowning. The white water, of course, is the whole reason they go out on the river to begin with.

What challenge is enlivening your life?

For most of the year blackberries are a scourge: a thorny, invasive vine that is impossible to get rid of. But for a few weeks of late summer the blackberry vine redeems itself with mouthfuls of tangy sweetness.

What in your life that you mostly find annoying periodically gives you something wonderful?

It is a national tragedy that so many of our people are locked behind bars—both those who are imprisoned and those who feel that they must live behind barred windows in order to feel safe. Closing the blinds and avoiding looking at your neighbors hardly seems like a solution.

How do you help to build a community in which everyone is more secure?