Tell me where I am

note: Touring with our 13-year-old grandson.

Questions

Do we reveal ourselves best
By our questions rather than
By answers we give?

Or, will the dwelling tell
A villa or a hamlet
Or my vision of a place?

Home of the birds

O, so many houses
Which should I choose
What a luxury.

Four score and seven

Walking the battlefields in Gettysburg
The guide describes epic battles of the Civil War
Heroism, raw fear and cries of pain fill the air.

To catch a sunset

She runs out to the street
To catch the sunset
Wrong settings in the camera.

Graduation

Graduates from high school
full of verve and promise
doesn’t want her photo taken

Wordless Friday

Old memories

She

She arrives riding a bicycle,
Sits opposite me on the table.
We are members of a panel blind tasting wines.
Her possession of a sensitive palate and sharp intuition
promise her a thousand things.
She names the vintage,origin and varietals correctly .
Nothing seems to interfere with her thinking.

She stammers when excited and loves mouth watering green mangoes.
She writes with her left hand and uses the fork
with her right.She has a crystal-breaking like laugh

She appears on the appointed time and place for the wine tasting.
She is here. She is there.

Elegant in her simplicity and intellectually curious.
She disappears for a year to bicycle in Europe.

Take Time to Pray

. . . Prayer is a way of connecting with our source. It is about being centered, grounded, mindful of the holy, the presence of the sacred and the precious. . . . Prayer can help us to connect with the poor with open eyes and hearts. It is prayer that can allow us to educate with patience, love and understanding. It is prayer that can enable us to move to a simpler lifestyle. And it is prayer that will allow us to do this with conviction and joy.

And whether or not we pray is as obvious as whether or not we have put our clothes on. For example, the compulsive, frantic, angry, cynical, unintegrated rambling from project to project—even from peace project to peace project—may speak of good intentions, but also of an uneasy and untended inner life. It is possible . . . to do much harm because we have not taken the time to pray. . . .”

-Jack Jezreel
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation
From the Center for Action and Contemplation