Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist. — Rabia. It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then prayer and/or meditation takes you to a different place. Whether you start in a church pew, a comfortable chair, or during a walk in the woods, you are transported to a special…
Month: April 2018
Live With Dignity, Women, Live With Dignity, Men
Live with dignity, women, live with dignity, men. Few things will more enhance our beauty as much. — Rabia. Rabia of Basra is an influential female Islamic saint and a central figure in the Sufi tradition. That’s correct there is a female Islamic saint. When Rabia was quite young she was stolen, sold into slavery,…
Letter To Tom — What Will Our Children Do In The Morning?
What will our children do in the morning? Will they wake with their hearts wanting to play, the way wings should? …. What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly. — Rumi. Many of the readers of The Hubbell Pew remember a series we ran called “Letters to…
Sorrow Looks Back, Faith Looks Up.
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. — Ralph Waldo Emerson I can’t tell many times people have encouraged me to look back, crawl in a hole, and be sad and bitter. It seems the easy thing to do, but not the right thing. We all have worries. They come in many forms —…
In Twenty-Five Words Or Less
And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. — 2 Corinthians 3:18a. One of the requirements of authors these days is to participate in social media. Facebook, Twitter, and a Webpage…