by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jan 2, 2017 | Contemplations, Uncategorized
This was a reflection offered near midnight on December 31, in the candlelit Meditation Shelter at Rolling Ridge, part of an annual gathering of friends and journeyers to cross the threshold together. I began writing it while on the way to visit family in North...
by Linda DeGraf | Jan 2, 2017 | Contemplations, Uncategorized
January 2017 As we welcome 2017, saying “Happy New Year” may feel a bit trite and hollow in this troubled world. Yet in a recently published collection of songs, Carrie Newcomer reminds us to hold on to what sustains us: “The shadows of this world will say—There’s no...
by Katie Jones Pomeroy | Dec 14, 2016 | Contemplations
Dear Community and Friends, I hope I have met you. I hope yours is one of the many familiar faces I’m happy to see when I walk into the retreat house or that your name is one I recognize in stories of this place. If not yet, soon. My husband, Keith, and I moved into...
by Linda DeGraf | Dec 5, 2016 | Contemplations, Uncategorized
Standing at the edge of an abyss is no way to contemplate the coming new year. Yet that is how my heart feels, as though the earth has shaken beneath our feet and split asunder. I am reminded of a conversation in a television show of my youth —a teenage...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jul 15, 2016 | Contemplations
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. (Annie Dillard) Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen) It’s summer, the...
by Linda DeGraf | Jun 3, 2016 | Contemplations
“Rumi said that all words are fingers pointing to the moon, and we think the words are the moon. But because of the light, the light of love, the energy and motion that have called us to prayer, bits of this deeper reality are perceivable, and little bits of it...
