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The Next Breath
Category Archives: Desert Diaries
A Prayer for Enfolding and Emitting
Holy Spirit, enfold me into yourself
“Mourning makes us poor; it powerfully reminds us of our smallness. But it is precisely here, in that pain or poverty or awkwardness, that the Dancer invites us to rise up and take the first steps. For in our suffering, not apart from it, Jesus enters our sadness, takes us by the hand, pulls us gently up to stand, and invites us to dance…”
-Henri Nouwen,
from Turn my Mourning into Dancing: Finding Hope in Hard Times
Afternoon to Evening
In early summer, feel the turning of the long afternoon to evening. If you feel consolation, and then that slight urgency to hold on to it: rest knowing that nothing […]…
“The word paradise comes from the Persian, where it originally meant ‘wilderness,’ and there is no doubt a lesson there.”
-Kathleen Norris
Silent Hour
“It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person–beguiled, enchanted.
-Mary Ellen Chase
Every Pair of Shoes
And at my last step before I fall from night and day; and I wash up on heaven’s shore: may I be found again in the house of love…
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