Only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
04119 – Grieving Heals Grief
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04104 – Easter is…
Easter is about love and truth. Easter says that love is more powerful than failure, bigger than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer. Easter says you can bury truth in the grave, but you can’t keep it there. He is risen.
03996 – Music is Physical
Music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, your breath. We’re walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn’t get to any other way.
03943 – Spiritual & Subversive Acts
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
03887 – Books Help Us Understand Life
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us...
03801 – Forgiveness:
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare... from Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
03658 – My Heart’s Album
Laughter lifts the phonograph needle out of the scratches on my heart’s album.
03583 – Going Tourist Class?
Life has got to be bigger than death, and love has got to be bigger than fear or this is all a total bust and we are all just going tourist class.
03572 – Doubt? Or Certainty?
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me - -that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the...
03552 – Go Practice!
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.