A Prayer For Those Who Minister
March 12th, 2010JanInterfaith
O Compassionate One, Dear Spirit, Giver of Life and Sustainer of All:
We come to you this day
our knees buckled
the weight of the world burdening our shoulders
our eyes filled with grief
our spirits weary
our hearts cracked open.
Spirituality and Mental Illness (Part One)
March 4th, 2010JanInterfaithThere are many different lenses through which we can view the experience of mental illness. Today, I would like to speak about it from a spiritual perspective.
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Pain as the Portal
February 26th, 2010JanInterfaithWhy is death painful? Do people who are dying suffer needlessly? Is there a reason for pain? These questions haunt me not only because it is my destiny to die, but because the pain that can be part of dying afflicts its witnesses too.
Embodying Divinity
February 26th, 2010JanInterfaith
"To remain without thought in the waking state is the greatest worship."
(Nisargadatta Maharaj, Hindu sage)
"Knowing—thinking, defining, judging, opposing—
keeps us from entering the inner/outer Kingdom."
(Anne Hillman, author of Awakening the Energies of Love)
Angels of Grief
February 26th, 2010JanInterfaith
Last July I served as doula for my mother in her last hours. The word 'doula', which comes from a Greek root, refers to "a knowledgeable support person", normally associated with childbirth. In the case of my mother's dying, I felt myself to be a midwife to her spirit-birth. What I didn't realize until later was how deeply I would also be transformed through the experience.
