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Kinship with all things
I am returning to a blog written over three years ago, knowing that my aging cat Tabitha has passed on and the people of Syria continue to suffer. It is a difficult time for many around the world and in this country. There is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams, pg.359 I have found in prayer a kinship with humanity and with animals. I love the liturgical prayers, but I also find myself…
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Walking Compline
I had a theater director in college who began his day walking from his home to the college where he taught. He would pray the alphabet as he walked. He would begin with A and then he would pray for all the students whose first names began with A. By the time he reached his office he had offered up his “lauds” for each student who was studying with him and acting in plays. It seemed to me a creative and active way to pray. It was as if the alphabet was a “rosary” and he was praying one step and one name at a time. I find myself…
