Amy Secrist

Tag: practice

  • Advent’s Beginning

    Today is the second day of Advent, a holy season of anticipation, preparation, and by the end, we hope, a readiness. It is easy to get caught in a whirlwind of perfectionism in which we strive to meet unrealistic expectations of our own making or those of others.  It is even easier to strive and then…

  • Of a November Morning

    Venus adorns the morning’s crescent, a glowing diamond in this eastern sky, while waves of clouds roll beneath the moon’s waning, this daily joining in, a practiced participation, these lonely dives beneath love’s surface, breaking into rocks of selfishness where gleaming bands of diamonds speak about grace, sparkling mercies rolling beneath our smiles, countless gifts adorning our…

  • Fruits

    I crawl into the deep of our humanity cracking open and practice cracking open and being split. I eat the fruit and become the fruit and practice becoming whole over these years of our growing.