Let This Light Grow in Us

Let it grow in us, this light, let it grow in all of our hearts, the light of our love for one another, let it grow and get stronger, let it not be dimmed but increased, becoming ever more radiant, reaching out to enfold all the people who need its blessing so badly. Let it […]

December 12, 2020 by Anita Davidson 2 Comments
Categories: Christmas, Community, Compassion, Contemplation in Action, Contemplative Leadership, Contemplative Living, Contemplative Reading, Contemplative Spirituality, Continuous Prayer, Loss, Love, Nature and spirituality, Pandemic, Prayer, Self Compassion, Spiritual Deepening, spiritual discipline, spiritual growth, and spirituality in community. Tags: awareness, Christmas, Christmas Star, community, compassion, contemplation, contemplative tradition, dark and light, earth, God, grounding, healing, hope, Inspiration, Jesus, joy, light, listening, love, Meister Eckart, nature, peace, prayer, presence, spiritual growth, spiritual practice, spirituality, Steven Charleston, suffering, trust, and Winter Solstice. Interest Areas: Friday Blog.

Sons of Light and Daughters of Day

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief.  For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and […]

November 11, 2020 by Anita Davidson
Categories: Community, Compassion, Contemplation in Action, Contemplative Leadership, Contemplative Living, Contemplative Spirituality, Continuous Prayer, Coronavirus, Listening, Loss, Love, Pandemic, Prayer, Race, Self Compassion, Service, social justice, Solitude, spiritual direction, spiritual discipline, spiritual growth, spirituality at work, and spirituality in community. Tags: awareness, community, compassion, contemplation, contemplative tradition, discernment, God, grief, grounding, healing, hope, Inspiration, Jesus, leadership, light, listening, love, peace, prayer, presence, racial equity, spiritual growth, spiritual practice, spirituality, suffering, and trust. Formats: Friday Blog. Interest Areas: Friday Blog.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

~Rumi

Categories: Loss, Love, Prayer, and Self Compassion. Tags: light, rumi, and wound. Formats: Monday Moment and Quote.

Into the Dark

Today’s post is by Joann Nesser I was afraid to follow you into the dark, afraid I would lose your lovely face. But, gently, you took my hand and led me across into the abyss where no one knows the way. Gradually the light began to dawn And then came streaming in. Bright light, shining […]

June 06, 2017 by Joann Nesser
Categories: Contemplative Spirituality. Tags: darkness, light, poem, and Poetry. Formats: Article and Friday Blog. Interest Areas: Friday Blog.