This week marked the thirty-eighth anniversary of my mom's death. My daughter, who never met my mother, was born twenty-six years from the date of her grandmother's death. Since my daughter's birth, this date has always had symbolic significance for me. Read more [...]
Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American author best known for her young adult classic and Newberry Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time. Also widely read were its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Read more [...]
There is an intimate and integral relationship between the practice of silence and simplicity and the spirituality that infuses Advent. It is the silence required for a listening heart and the simplicity required for an unpossessed heart that makes it Read more [...]