Tag: family life
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Givingbirds Light
These little birds flit around the house lighting here and there, sitting on the counters, standing on the chairs, zooming through the kitchen. They make “holy spirit water” and play church, wedding, and workers, after post office, house, and kitchen-shopping. Screaming-mad and cackling-happy these growing-up friends make their way through the days and I watch…
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God beyond God
“God is always beyond God, the iconoclast par excellence, who over and over breaks out of the forms and symbols of our making.” ~ Bernard J. Lee, SM I stand at the sink scrubbing the shiny steel pan when my littlest one asks me to read. I ask for his patience, one, two, three…
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Rumors
I have heard making pilgrimage to India, to study asana, is like being broken-open. The first month you are cracked; the second you are rewired, and the third you are pieced together new. I have heard making pilgrimage to family, to co-create human beings, is like being broken-open. The first child opens you, raw; the…
Amy Secrist 