Creation Is All Space, All Time -

The Universe Is In The Habit Of Making Beauty. There Are Flowers And Songs, Snowflakes And Smiles, Acts Of Great Courage, Laughter Between Friends, A Job Well Done, The Smell Of Fresh Baked Bread. Beauty Is Everywhere.

Faith Takes Us To Deep Places, To The Ruptures In Our Self-confidence And Our Lives. Do Not Settle For Spiritual Comfort All The Time...darkness Is Divine Also. Faith Is Not About Positive Thinking So Much As About What Kicks In When We Are Weak, Sick, And Short Of Self-confidence. The Via Positiva Never Stands Alone. The Via Negativa Is Always With Us On Our Faith Journey As Well.

Facing The Darkness, Admitting The Pain, Allowing The Pain To Be Pain, Is Never Easy. This Is Why Courage - Big-heartedness - Is The Most Essential Virtue On The Spiritual Journey. But If We Fail To Let Pain Be Pain - And Our Entire Patriarchal Culture Refuses To Let This Happen - Then Pain Will Haunt Us In Nightmarish Ways. We Will Become Pain's Victims Instead Of The Healers We Might Become.

Creation Is All Things And Us. It Is Us In Relationship With All Things. All Things, The Ones We See And The Ones We Do Not; The Whirling Galaxies And The Wild Suns, The Black Holes And The Microorganisms, The Trees And The Stars, The Fish And The Whales - The Molten Lava And The Towering Snow-capped Mountains, The Children We Give Birth To And Their Children, And Theirs, And Theirs, And Theirs.

Healthy Mysticism Praises Acts Of Letting Go, Of Being Emptied, Of Getting In Touch With The Space Inside And Expanding This Until It Merges With The Space Outside. Space Meeting Space; Empty Pouring Into Empty. Births Happen From That Encounter With Emptiness, Nothingness. . . . Let Us Not Fight Emptiness And Nothingness, But Allow It To Penetrate Us Even As We Penetrate It.