Essays

When I tell you all shall be well, I don’t mean that life won’t bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what. – Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings “Life will be life.” is a sentence uttered […]

If tonight the world ends,  We’ll have had this day. – Wendell Berry I’ve missed my sisters and nieces for this whole Covid year. It’s true we talked, zoomed and face-timed a lot. But we weren’t in each other’s physical presence. I had forgotten how nurturing it is to be in the energy field of

“Summer is the season when all the promissory notes of autumn and winter and spring come due…summer is a steady state of plenty, a green and amber muchness that feeds us on more levels than we know…here is a summertime truth: abundance is a communal act, the joint creation of an incredibly complex ecology in

Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is discord, union; From: A Prayer attributed to Saint Francis The above lines are from one of the most well known prayers in Christianity; it is definitely not limited to Christians but is

by Hillary Geisler, MA As a marketing director for high-tech software start-ups, I witnessed the challenging ways businesses pursued their goals. In some companies, there was the constant pressure of earnings, where every quarter required maximum participation to close enough sales to keep the doors open, and investors satisfied. These corporate climates were fast-paced, profit-driven,

By Patty Speier, DMin Here we are mainly concerned with the “soul” as the shaping spirit within any vital process. These, the inner spirit and the outer form, are two distinctive ways of a single mode of being. In considering the soul of the future, I am concerned with the inner vision that we need