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How Can I Find God?

March 5, 2023 by David Anderson 4 Comments

There was once a young boy who would wander in the woods. His father became concerned as he went deeper and deeper into the forest each time, so one day he said to the boy, “I notice that every day you walk into the woods. Why do you go there?”  The boy replied, “I go […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Daily Practice, Lent, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing, Silence, Transformation

The Yellow Falling Leaf

February 22, 2023 by David Anderson 16 Comments

Question One: What more did I think I wanted? We don’t think of Ash Wednesday as a time to reflect on happiness. Isn’t it about sackcloth and guilt? But Ash Wednesday is set apart simply as a day to ponder this one fact: We came from dust, and we return to dust. When we accept […]

Filed Under: Blessing, Daily Practice, Faith/Trust, Gratitude, Happiness, Lent, Letting Go, Love, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation, Reality--trusting it, Repentance, Surrender

The Glory of Nothing

January 7, 2016 by David Anderson 18 Comments

In the first blush of the season of Epiphany, I think I had one today. I was talking to a friend on the phone last week. He said, I’m not really enjoying work. My commute to D.C is a bear. My work life is winding down toward retirement. But what am I good at these […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Gratitude, Happiness, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing

Lean Into the Light

February 2, 2015 by David Anderson 5 Comments

  Today—February 2nd—is a big turning point. It’s a great cross-quarter day, midway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. In ancient, agricultural societies it was regarded as the beginning of spring—the time for first turning the soil in preparation for March planting. There were prayers and rituals centered on the fertility of the […]

Filed Under: Awareness, LIght, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing, Waiting

Tired of All the Noise?

December 28, 2014 by David Anderson 5 Comments

We expect monks and mystics to tell us how important silence is. Gordon Hempton is neither of those. He is an acoustic ecologist, someone who studies the sound of the natural world and seeks to preserve it. In his book, One Square Inch of Silence, Hempton says there are less than a dozen places left […]

Filed Under: Awareness, creation, Daily Practice, Listening, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation, Silence, Uncategorized

Lessons in Stone

September 8, 2014 by David Anderson 13 Comments

If you want to know what beauty is and how it is created in this life, build a simple stone wall. When I decided to build two low stone walls on either side of the driveway into our home in Pennsylvania, I went in search of stone. I wished for a truck that would drop […]

Filed Under: creativity, Nature/Creation, Patience, work

Raids on the Unspeakable

August 28, 2014 by David Anderson 7 Comments

One of the gifts of vacation is to change up one’s prayer ritual. Normally, Pam and I sit for prayer in a corner of our bedroom. There are two chairs, a small table for an oil lamp, a few sacred books, and a timer that sounds a Tibetan prayer bell when our orison is over. […]

Filed Under: Awareness, creation, Daily Practice, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation

Helen Keller and F-a-l-l

October 21, 2013 by David Anderson 5 Comments

Where I live, the trees are in beautiful death swoons, immolating in falling flames of red and gold, orange and brown. Last week, after I finished my morning run I walked the rest of the way home. A few feet from the front door I noticed—the glory all around me! How had I run through […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Daily Practice, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing

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