If something as simple as a good cup of coffee can deeply impact and enrich our everyday lives, what else can? What other good, simple things are within our grasp to deepen our love of the life around us?
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I needed to know that God still tenderly embraced me and to allow myself to be tenderly embraced. I needed to be held as tightly as I held to my doubts.
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What if God is not confined to our understanding of the church? What if God wants to meet me here, right now, in this little shop? And some part of me hopes - needs - this to be true.
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“There are two main questions I have wrestled with throughout my life: who am I and where do I belong? If I had to guess, you have probably asked one or both of those questions at some point in your life, too.”
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I instantly fell in love with Paterson’s internal readings and revisions of his poems because it shows that poetry, like life, isn’t easy. Poetry—and life—takes practice.
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I think sometimes we rush through life and forget to look at the beauty around us. It’s as if beauty knows we are looking for it - it will be there when we seek it.
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April is national poetry month. We love poetry around here at the Interyear House! Here is a poem that I wrote after an hour spent in the chapel at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
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Holy Saturday gives us an opportunity to engage with the darkness and confusion of our current reality, too. We all have questions that go unanswered, grief that demands to be felt.
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