Before anything else, we pause.We breathe.We allow ourselves to come inside. In one of her luminous poems, Hildegard of Bingen turns to nature to speak about what it means to be prepared for God: O green vigour of the hand of God,in which God has planted a vineyard…You are glorious in your preparation for God. […]
Welcome to the year before you. Are you ready for it? Ready for the journey? Ready to face whatever comes your way? There is something about this threshold moment that carries a strange mixture of emotions. We are not exactly afraid, but there is a quiet foreboding — What is this year going to offer […]
Each morning offers us a quiet miracle. There is that moment — half-awake — when the body hesitates. The bed is warm. The night has held us gently, almost like a womb. There is safety there. A reluctance to leave. A subtle struggle to rise, to be alive again. And perhaps that is exactly what […]
As I sit beneath these ancient trees, a prayer rises within me — a prayer for oneness, for wholeness, for the remembrance that I am part of a lineage, a stream that has always been flowing. Life is fractal: wholes within wholes within wholes. Each drop of water contains the ocean. Each breath contains the […]
Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we’ve cut off through the journey of life requires openness and acceptance. Yet this is rarely easy, because we live in a world built on judgment—good versus bad, right versus wrong, worthy versus unworthy. The healing journey invites us beyond that polarity, into a space of gentle allowance where […]
There are lessons whispered in the language of water. As we follow the journey of a river from its source to the sea, we see our own story reflected in its flow. When the river is young, it bursts forth with power, carving through obstacles and clearing its path with ease. Nothing can stand in […]
Introduction The Caribbean has always been a teacher — of rhythm, resilience, and relationship. We live surrounded by water. Endless water, and so little land. Yet we often live as though we were somewhere else — trying to imitate the solidity of continents, building walls and habits meant for places not our own. But we […]
Morning by morning, we awaken—again. The past travels with us, but it does not get to drive. Our work is to honour what has shaped us while refusing to be defined by it. There is a holy art to ending well, blessing what is complete, and stepping—lightly—into beginnings. To live this art, we practice remembering. […]
There is a moment in the book of Jeremiah when the prophet is taken to the house of the potter. He watches as the clay in the potter’s hands begins one way, but then shifts. The potter changes course and shapes something altogether different. Traditionally, this story is used to affirm God’s freedom — that […]