Articles on Nature

  • Praying across the Globe

    Praying across the Globe

    Last month, nine members of Shalem Korea gathered at the guest house of a Presbyterian church in Seoul for a retreat. Their time was guided by Shalem’s Contemplative Earth Awareness online retreat day, led by Ann Dean. Hyeran Yang shares, “the weather had been very windy and rainy until Thursday night. But the morning of…

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  • Calm, Open and Harmonious

    Calm, Open and Harmonious

    Today’s post is by Bryan Berghoef The current stage of life I’m in is busy. I have four active kids in elementary and middle school. Daily I find myself driving them to practice, to track meets, to school activities. I work as a pastor in a new church setting in which I am the only…

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  • Greater comfort

    There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. ~Thomas Merton

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  • Embraced by the Earth

    Embraced by the Earth

    Today’s post is by Anita Davidson Memories of my childhood are very incomplete and foggy, except for a few. As Earth Day approaches, one of them keeps recurring and the memory isn’t just in my mind. It’s deeply visceral. So much so that I feel compelled to write it down. I was born and raised…

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  • The Birthing of a New Earth Consciousness

    The Birthing of a New Earth Consciousness

    Article by Ann Dean (April 2018 eNews) I am the rain coming from the dew that causes the grasses to laugh with the joy of life. I am the yearning for good.                                 Hildegard of Bingen The quality I most…

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  • All the buried seeds

    All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can’t see. ~Mark Nepo

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