Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
New Visions

Archives

Select a Category 3i projects current events emotional states Heart in the news Mark's weekly reflections Michele's vlogs poetry Three Intentions happenings Uncategorized writing/books

Select a Month November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009

May 2018

May 14, 2018

Lifesong with Two Trumpets

I am tired of those who swill their head in a bucket and claim there...

May 07, 2018

The Symmetry of Kindness

The train slammed into the station, injuring hundreds. The engineer was critically hurt. People toppled...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Believing the Guest

Where do all the forgotten promises land? “I would never hurt you.” “I will love...

April 23, 2018

Things Get Complicated

For example, the toaster needs to be cleaned, and taking it apart, the last screw...

April 16, 2018

A Nameless Ritual

You can, despite the innocence you were born with, feel that something is missing, and...

April 09, 2018

Written in the Night

If you can’t sleep or look away from all that’s going on, then you haven’t...

April 02, 2018

In the Milky Ocean

As you pour milk on your cereal, I am grateful for the sound of milk...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Latkes in Minneapolis

Delayed by storms, I’m having latkes in a hotel and you all come flooding back...

March 19, 2018

Signs of the One Essence

The tops of clouds that no one sees illuminated by the sun. The inside...

March 12, 2018

Remembering

The proper function of memory is to re-member, to put the members or parts of...

March 05, 2018

Music to Read By

When I decide I love you just as you’ve left town, when you muster the...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

When You Have No More to Give

When you feel you have no more to give, keep your heart open just a...

February 05, 2018

Letting Go of the Need to Be Liked

Bartering for affection has come to an end. I love you with no hope...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

What Talent Do I Have?

Now, in her seventies, Ruth remembers being a girl, the daughter of a sharecropper in...

January 22, 2018

Where We Need to Be

It isn’t long after we arrive that everyone starts pointing and telling us where we...

January 15, 2018

All Things Reveal

All things reveal the Whole. Through one rounded shell, the depth of the ocean. Through...

January 08, 2018

Landing Face Up

I’m watching the sun rise over the Rockies. The foothills are rounded and closer to...

January 02, 2018

A Mighty Kindness

Sometimes, though I’m not supposed to know, I feel such a deep and timeless ache...

December 2017

December 26, 2017

Authority of Being

The sun doesn’t stop shining because some of us are blind. The birds don’t...

December 18, 2017

During the Storm

I was dreaming of the one who doesn’t see me and the one I’m afraid...

December 11, 2017

This Time

Funny how we love in the way we want to be loved, how we think...

December 04, 2017

Wanting to Go Back

You may have expected that enlightenment would come like zap! Instantaneous and permanent. This is...

November 2017

November 27, 2017

Beneath All Trouble, Oneness

When I saw the wheelchair man with spindly limbs twist his neck to the sun,...

November 20, 2017

If Mother Could Rest

If I rise out of being her child, if I rise out of being a...

November 13, 2017

Road Trip

A bird hits a window in a tower in Dallas, startling a man at his...

November 06, 2017

Will and Surrender

The Chinese poet Po Chü-I (772-846) recounts in a poem how he’d traveled so long...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Practicing

As a man in his last breath drops all he is carrying each breath...

October 24, 2017

Without Explanation

I’ve been poked and prodded for years: to explain, to defend, to leave another piece...

October 16, 2017

Vow

I wake this morning thirty years to the day that the tumor vanished from my...

October 09, 2017

Sweet Teachers

I met Ernie and Cathy several years ago, two sensitive souls who live on the...

Related posts from Field Notes on Living

New Visions

Pain and Glow

Field Notes on Living

New Visions

Miraculum

Field Notes on Living

New Visions

How We Arrive

Field Notes on Living

New Visions

By the River

Field Notes on Living

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Subscription Support Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In

Follow Patheos