A Prayer of Lament for Loneliness
Abba Abba Hear my cry I stand among the legions and I am set apart in a pillar of icy loneliness My soul is preserved in cherry amber My weeping is like a song of mourning bowed on the strings of a dark cello I am trapped below the bitter waters of the River Jordan...
A Prayer of lament for the Wildfires
God Almighty creator of heaven and earth We beseech you On bent knee we kneel before you wearing sackcloth and ashes on our head Our garments are torn and our hearts are broken We have sinned against your creation Now the flames of our idolatry consume all that lives...
Because They Love You
Never before has it become so clear to me through the fog of war that the mysterious space between nonhumans and humans is filled with divinity. To be perfectly blunt again and again I have read stories of citizens of Ukraine refusing to be separated from the...
Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives
Book Review: By Roxanne Grace Sperry, PhD D(ABHI) AFOCAE Title: Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives Author: Hope Ferdowsian, MD Introduction: Many of us are familiar with the Phoenix as a creature from Greek mythology that is consumed by fire....
Good Bye My Beloved Ripley
My Beloved Ripley Goodbye my beloved Ripley I open the door and call your name and only there is a wrinkle in the air Goodbye my beloved Ripley I reach out to feel your fur and touch a soft memory Goodbye my beloved Ripley I listen for the sweetness of your sound like...
River Rocks and Dogs
River Rocks and Dogs If you have ever loved a dog, then you know the pain and sadness that comes to you when the dog's life ends. I am better for the life of a dog. The dog, works in our life, much the same as the flowing water in the river that smooth the rocks in...
Captured In The Gaze of One of God’s Creatures
I stood alone. No, I stood on the path to the beach captured in the gaze of one of God’s creatures; I was not alone. On foggy days the veil is thin. Time, space and sound are transformed by the mystery that lives in the fog. There was a soothing and nurturing blanket...
A reading from The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour on the birth of Jesus
A reading from The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour on the birth of Jesus 2. In the three hundred and ninth year of the era of Alexander, Augustus put forth an edict, that every man should be enrolled in his native place. Joseph therefore arose, and taking...
A reading from The Protoevangelium of James, the birth of Jesus
A reading from The Protoevangelium of James, the birth of Jesus 17. And there was an order from the Emperor Augustus, that all in Bethlehem of Judæa should be enrolled. Luke 2:1 And Joseph said: I shall enrol my sons, but what shall I do with this maiden? How shall I...
A Way To Think About Animals
I do not think that we will be able to rescue all the species in the world that are at risk for extinction unless we think and feel differently about them. Perhaps we can consider the words of conservationist Henry Beston: “We need another and wiser and perhaps more...
A Prayer of Lament for Loneliness
Abba Abba Hear my cry I stand among the legions and I am set apart in a pillar of icy loneliness My soul is preserved in cherry amber My weeping is like a song of mourning bowed on the strings of a dark cello I am trapped below the bitter waters of the River Jordan...
A Prayer of lament for the Wildfires
God Almighty creator of heaven and earth We beseech you On bent knee we kneel before you wearing sackcloth and ashes on our head Our garments are torn and our hearts are broken We have sinned against your creation Now the flames of our idolatry consume all that lives...
Because They Love You
Never before has it become so clear to me through the fog of war that the mysterious space between nonhumans and humans is filled with divinity. To be perfectly blunt again and again I have read stories of citizens of Ukraine refusing to be separated from the...
Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives
Book Review: By Roxanne Grace Sperry, PhD D(ABHI) AFOCAE Title: Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives Author: Hope Ferdowsian, MD Introduction: Many of us are familiar with the Phoenix as a creature from Greek mythology that is consumed by fire....
Good Bye My Beloved Ripley
My Beloved Ripley Goodbye my beloved Ripley I open the door and call your name and only there is a wrinkle in the air Goodbye my beloved Ripley I reach out to feel your fur and touch a soft memory Goodbye my beloved Ripley I listen for the sweetness of your sound like...
River Rocks and Dogs
River Rocks and Dogs If you have ever loved a dog, then you know the pain and sadness that comes to you when the dog's life ends. I am better for the life of a dog. The dog, works in our life, much the same as the flowing water in the river that smooth the rocks in...
Captured In The Gaze of One of God’s Creatures
I stood alone. No, I stood on the path to the beach captured in the gaze of one of God’s creatures; I was not alone. On foggy days the veil is thin. Time, space and sound are transformed by the mystery that lives in the fog. There was a soothing and nurturing blanket...
A reading from The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour on the birth of Jesus
A reading from The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour on the birth of Jesus 2. In the three hundred and ninth year of the era of Alexander, Augustus put forth an edict, that every man should be enrolled in his native place. Joseph therefore arose, and taking...
A reading from The Protoevangelium of James, the birth of Jesus
A reading from The Protoevangelium of James, the birth of Jesus 17. And there was an order from the Emperor Augustus, that all in Bethlehem of Judæa should be enrolled. Luke 2:1 And Joseph said: I shall enrol my sons, but what shall I do with this maiden? How shall I...
A Way To Think About Animals
I do not think that we will be able to rescue all the species in the world that are at risk for extinction unless we think and feel differently about them. Perhaps we can consider the words of conservationist Henry Beston: “We need another and wiser and perhaps more...