Amy Secrist

Tag: daily practice

  • Consistent Practice

    What is consistent practice?  What does it mean to miss a day (or two) (or three) in the midst of a twenty-one day discipline?  How do we begin again?  In her book “Ancient Prayer” Rachel C. Weingarten references centuries old rabbinic commentary on Exodus, “Kol Hatchalot Kashot,” All Beginnings are difficult.”  She writes in the…

  • We Stop Beneath the Buckeye Tree

    The seed pod dropped on the sidewalk and split. I see the ruddy shine through a slit in the spiked orb and wonder at its depth of color, the certain slant of light spent on its creation and its becoming. I hold the sharp husk gingerly between my fingers and thumb and wonder at the satisfaction…