By Lilly Lewin I’m on my annual silent retreat this week at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. It’s the monastery of Thomas Merton and Father Matthew Kelty and the…
By Lynne Baab– “Hope is being able to see there is light despite all of the darkness.”—Desmond Tutu I want to tell you about my decade-long journey of trying to…
by Christine Sine As we end this series on Read Life Differently, I wanted to do so with this prayer which I wrote about 5 years ago. It is a good reminder…
by Christine Sine I mentioned last week that I am starting a busy travel season and part of what I am discovering is that flying is becoming a great place…
by Christine Sine Jesus has come to transform people not to exclude them (Richard Rohr Wondrous Encounters 21) It was these words of Richard Rohr that held my attention this…
I couldn’t resist just one more poem for Valentine’s Day. This one was commissioned by the Daily Telegraph in the UK some years ago. It is the prize winning poet…
A series of poems on love would not be complete without Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116. The sonnet appeared in Emma Thompson’s screenplay for the film of Sense and Sensibility, and is…
Today’s love poem The Good Morrow is from one of the greats of English literature, John Donne. (1572 – 1631) Amazingly this was probably his earliest poem. It weaves sensual and spiritual…
