Opening Yourself

Camp Fire, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


      Absence disembodies
     so does Death
     hiding individuals from the Earth.

        Emily Dickinson

To give light

RIC_6958, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Victor E. Frankl

Religion

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Religion is what people believe and what they do about it.

James Christie

Story you are tending

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

What's the story you are tending, the one you'll never let be put out?
Let's start there.
Tell me that story.

Christina Baldwin, Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story

Communion

For thousands of years we have gathered in circle –
around fires, around bodies, around altars –
because we can’t do this alone.

Wayne Muller