O Yuletide Tree, O Yuletide TreeEvergreen and fragrantO Yuletide Tree, O Yuletide TreeEvergreen and fragrantWe bring you in our home to beA sign of life’s eternityO Yuletide Tree, O Yuletide TreeForever green and lovely. Evergreens have long been part of Winter Solstice celebrations. The evergreen trees, such as fir, pine and cedar or juniper, keep … Read more
I give thanks, my dear friends, visitors, participants, and beloveds, for your presence; the gift of being of service to you, the great honor of being a traveller with you on a few miles of your sacred journey. Together we stand at the Great Turning, and in Love and Gratitude we are transformed. Thank you.Blessed … Read more
Sea Flower of the Morning ©Adam Scott MillerInitiation Song from the Finders Lodgeexcerpted from Always Coming Homeby Ursula K. LeGuin Please bring strange things.Please come bringing new things.Let very old things come into your hands.Let what you do not know come into your eyes.Let desert sand harden your feetLet the arch of your feet be … Read more
Frank Fools Crow In the presence of this house, Grandfather, Wakan-Tanka, and fromthe directions where the sun sets,and from the direction of cleansing power,and from the direction of the rising un,and from the direction of the middle of the day.Grandfather, Wakan-Tanka,Grandmother, the Earth who hears everything,Grandmother, because you are woman, for this reason you are … Read more
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind… ‘Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. — Thomas Paine We are … Read more
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. — John Henry Jowett (1864 – 1923 ) As you shift your attention from what you don’t have, … Read more
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.— Kahlil Gibran We have been considering ways to heal our past history with money. There are many, many ways to do this, and these are but a few … Read more
It takes dynamite to get me upToo much of everything is just enoughOne more thing I just got to say —I need a miracle every day,I need a miracle every day. — Bob Weir/John Barlow Every year in August, I have been going on a week-long spiritual retreat to West Virginia. But last year, I … Read more
May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.May all beings not have suffering and the causes of suffering.May all beings never be without the supreme bliss, free from all suffering.May all beings live in the great equanimity, free from all attachment and aversion.— from The Great Peace Prayer of the Buddha Craft leader … Read more
In honor of Firing the Grid… May this prayer spell pulse through us all, from this day forward: The Goddess is our sanctuary;Her embrace holds us night and day.We can be unafraid in the earthquake andComforted in the hurricane knowing we are not alone. She is the river of joy, gladness is her voice.She streams … Read more