Category: Reflections

Photos taken at Sandy Saulteaux Spiritual Centre on January 14, 2019. Broad shadowless lighting. Clean snow. Winter beauty.

Lunar eclipse: January 20-21, 2019.

I have been interested in astronomy since I was a boy, but until recently it hasn't extended beyond armchair interest. Last year, I acquired a small telescope and have been looking at the sky in more depth.

We look up and see the stars. From Earth orbit, we look down and see the streetlights. And under the streetlights, we can no longer see the stars.

A few years ago, I went to a nearby retreat centre on a four-day solitary retreat. I ended up doing what I needed to, not what I planned.

The Heart of Contemplation can be very big, like a snow-covered landscape, or very small, like the small botanicals of a dried flower arrangement. The common and distinguishing features are Silence and attention to that Silence.

Walking east one autumn night, I looked up and saw Mother Moon, ahead and to my left.

Dialog after a difficult day.

In the first residency of my spiritual direction training, one of my teachers said to a small group of us, "I miss having my teacher here." We who teach or have taught stand at the end of a...

At first the Resurrection seems so hidden and all at once, you find it hiding in plain sight.