I don’t know about all of you, but I love Pentecost. This time in the church calendar when we remember the Holy Spirit, our advocate. Sometimes we remember this season by talking about when Peter and the disciples received the spirit and spoke in different languages so that all the Jews visiting from all over […]
Rising
It is St. Patrick’s Day here in Iowa. And Lent consciousness abides. This morning I find myself out on the burnt prairie patch. And it all begins where the last lesson began: with light. Only today the simple truth about light is that the rising sun is hidden behind a drooping, dreary canopy of misty […]
Territory
Greetings from Prairie School East! I’ve come to sit at the feet of this patch of burnt and re-energized Iowa prairie for a lesson on Saturday morning, March 13. Yep, one week ago now, as the Denver area was bracing for The Snowpocalypse. Yipes! This Iowa prairie lesson begins with light, particularly sunlight; and color. […]
Emerging
As this lesson pulls into view I am firmly in the grip of Lent and this theme of Emerging. I’m driving back to Colorado from two weeks in Iowa with my dad. His life energy is fading. What is emerging for him is surrender. Not something he’s ever been good at or fond of. What’s […]
Genius
Perspective. This lesson begins with perspective. After two weeks in Iowa followed by three days in Colorado, I’ve traveled back to Iowa to continue living with my dad for now. It is good to be with Dad. It is good to be here on my home soil, near my home water. I had planned a […]
Paying Attention
We’ve had several lessons on what we might learn from The Land. Here’s one about how to learn from her. On my recent trip back to Iowa to care for my dad, I decided to stay in a “hermitage” at the Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center in Cedar Rapids. It was one of my parents’ favorite […]