Keep our lamps trimmed and burning…for the time is drawing nigh. It is clearly time to unite in spirit and be prepared…prepared for new realizations…new ways of seeing life…May we connect with the Great Spirit of aliveness in which we live and move and have our being… A teacher of mine, Bayo Akomolafe wrote: What would change if we took seriously the consideration that the world is alive, that we derive our being from a never-static, ever-changing field of entanglements, and

We often feel lonely in the holidays, wondering where we belong in all the festivities.     January comes, the light is still thin, but we enter the world again.  The sunrise and sunsets are vibrant and we feel renewed.     This may be the moment to connect with our inner selves; we yearn for communion, first with ourselves and then with the community.   Howard Thurman viewed loneliness not just as an absence of people, but as a profound spiritual yearning, often overcome by

The Psalmist said that he had gone to church; he had praised God with great rejoicing; he has kept the holy days with devotion and sacrifice, and yet for all these things his soul was cast down within him, and he was puzzled and not a little ashamed. I presume that we too often must confess to ourselves if to no one else that even though we had gone to church and raised our voices in song an offered our prayer in the uttermost of devotion, yet somehow or other our soul was ca

Nature is both stable and orderly but also plastic and flexible, capable of entering new patterns and diversified combinations, as we see in the variety of structures and organisms of the geographical environment. But even these varied forms and products have not exhausted the possibilities and potentialities…On each level of organization different possibilities appear as constituent parts, by their interaction organize into new configurations in which the constituents behave