Category: Spiritual Direction
The Gods of Guitar be Praised!
June 25, 2009
“The gods of guitar be praised!” With these words the announcer of our local PBS station introduced the centerpiece of last night’s fundraising appeal—the 2007 performance of Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood together at Madison Square Garden. I have seen many of the great musical performances featured in these appeals, most of them classics and [...] Read More...
One Thousand Cranes
May 18, 2009
We visited Hiroshima on our trip to Japan earlier this year. The museum there is now dedicated to world peace and contains several monuments and displays. I snapped this photo of origami cranes made by school children in honor of Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was a child of two when the bomb hit Hiroshima. She [...] Read More...
Nervous Zen Master
April 13, 2009
I’ve recently returned from a trip to Japan, where we had the opportunity to meet with a Buddhist monk to learn the basics of Zen meditation. Our group of 14 entered the temple quietly and I heard the by-now-familiar swooshing sound of bare feet on tatami mats. Our local guide interpreted the monk’s opening remarks to [...] Read More...
Voices from God
February 23, 2009
As part of my course in spiritual direction, each of the twenty-one people in the program was asked to give a brief presentation on a saint, either historical or contemporary. Our group is very diverse and the saints chosen reflected this diversity. As we listened to each others’ presentations in the small room where we [...] Read More...
