Fall

Today my daughter and I punctuated our math lessons with leaf catching.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleNovember 19, 2024Theme LVIII, Sacred Disappointment, Contemplative StanceComment

Dancing with a Limp

For me disappointment is a shaming experience.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleNovember 6, 2024Theme LVIII, Sacred Disappointment, Contemplative StanceComment

Sacred Disappointment

The title of this theme is Sacred Disappointment.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleOctober 29, 2024Theme LVIII, Sacred Disappointment, Contemplative StanceComment

Thy Will Be Done

God is good. Is this a reliable statement? Reality seems to make it a statement that requires a conjunction.

Thy Kingdom Come

Her lips were drawn tight enough to break the skin, and one corner was dark with dried blood.

Holiness

The smell of incense and wood, purely sung chant, the paten and chalice: suggestions of the holy.

From Two Viewpoints

Contradiction is a wonderful way to look for truth.

Re-Entry: Repeat

The thing about breathing is that it repeats as long as life endures.

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleJuly 15, 2024Learning to Breathe, Theme LV, PilgrimageComment

Return: Expiration

What is the purpose of breathing?

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleJuly 15, 2024Learning to Breathe, Theme LV, PilgrimageComment

Arrival: Exchange

Breathing is a never ending task. The average human breathes between twelve and twenty-two times per minute

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleJuly 15, 2024Learning to Breathe, Theme LV, PilgrimageComment

Journey: Inspiration

My pilgrimage mantra is a breath prayer. As I breathe in, I chant, "I am here," and, as I breathe out, I chant, "Here I am."

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleJuly 15, 2024Learning to Breathe, Theme LV, PilgrimageComment

Preparation: Need

The trigger for the body to breathe is not a need for oxygen, it is a build up of carbon dioxide. It isn't a need for something,

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleJuly 15, 2024Learning to Breathe, Theme LV, PilgrimageComment

What Lies Within

There are moments in life when the edges of our three dimensional world blurs with the ineffable.

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleApril 25, 2024Theme LIV, En-Love-Ment, LoveComment

Show Me Love

How does the wave properly love the shore?

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleApril 18, 2024Theme LIV, En-Love-Ment, LoveComment

The Great En-Love-Ment

Resurrection: fact or fiction, myth or truth, metaphor or reality?

Devotional, Wisdom for the WayAndrea LingleApril 10, 2024Theme LIV, En-Love-Ment, LoveComment

To Dive In

In my dreams I can swim like a porpoise.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleMarch 26, 2024Lent Incarnate, Lent, Theme LIII, And You Shall Live, Incarnational StudyComment

To Love; To Suffer

What do you want? For dinner, for Christmas, to learn?

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleMarch 19, 2024Lent Incarnate, Lent, Theme LIII, And You Shall Live, Incarnational StudyComment

Through the Valley

What is salvation? Salvation means to be removed from harm

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleMarch 11, 2024Lent Incarnate, Lent, Theme LIII, And You Shall Live, Incarnational StudyComment

Inextricable

A single queen bee will not survive.

Tic Tac Toe

Tic Tac Toe is a stupid game, but it gets us.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalAndrea LingleFebruary 27, 2024Lent Incarnate, Lent, Theme LIII, And You Shall Live, Incarnational StudyComment