Gartenfische's Main Loves

  • God

  • Yoga

  • Meditation

  • Books

  • Photography

  • Gardening

  • Music

  • Silence

  • and of course . . . her family.

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They can be like a sun, words. They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

- John of the Cross

Mary Oliver

The Vast Ocean Begins Just Outside Our Church: The Eucharist

Friday, October 12th, 2007

I’ve been thinking about church; feeling the pull now that summer is over. I don’t know why, but every summer I fall away, lose the spark, and then cooler weather comes along and my desire for worship in community, for communion, begins to grow again. The fire that was barely smoldering is built once more […]

Praying, by Mary Oliver

Friday, September 14th, 2007

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.