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Anoint and cheer our soiled face
Strange words for a Thanksgiving morning, this sliver of a verse from the Veni Creator (Latin, Ninth Century, translated by John Cosin): Anoint and cheer our soiled face, With the abundance of thy grace. At many dinner tables today – whether in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Steps, 12-step spirituality, hope, recovery, simple prayer, St. Clare, Thanksgiving
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A doorway called lament
This morning’s Daily Office includes Psalm 88. Despite my resistance to it, I was pulled into this poetry of deep lament and carried forward to the final words: Darkness is my only companion. The conveniences and devices of modern life … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Steps, 12-step spirituality, 7th Step, hope, inner darkness, recovery, simple prayer
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Welcome to the edge
All Saints day is one of four Principal Feast days, commonly marked by the administration of baptism. Today (and this coming Sunday) we celebrate all those who are members of the Body of Christ, as we “express the intercommunion of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12-step spirituality, All Saints Day, holy ground, mercy, recovery, spiritual growth
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The center holds
This morning I found some old papers from graduate school, from when I studied creative writing at the University of Southern California. It was May 1992. One of our teachers assigned our motley crew of fiction writers the following exercise: … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Steps, hope, mercy, recovery, simple prayer, spiritual growth
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Grudgual: slow, incremental spiritual growth, initially resisted.
This morning a friend characterized his spiritual experience as being of the “grudgual” variety. It took a very long time – and some pretty desperate circumstances – for him to get comfortable with the possibility of a loving, all-powerful, creative … Continue reading
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A new name: living into ‘mother’
When I was a young girl in the Episcopal Church, there were never any females at the altar. Acolytes were always boys and priests men. The first time I saw a woman at the altar was strange and took getting … Continue reading
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