http://sacredpauses.com Meditation and Prayers for Life's Spiritual Highway Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:41:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://sacredpauses.com http://sacredpauses.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/purple cross.jpg http://sacredpauses.com/2010/08/cheap-grace/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://sacredpauses.com/2010/08/cheap-grace/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:41:20 +0000 Scribe http://sacredpauses.com/?p=664 Cheap Grace

Cheap Grace I was following, almost as a tangent last week, the story of the latest convocation of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in their decision to put off a decision on same-gender couple marriages for another two years of study (no big surprise there: large denominations tend to make canonical change at glacier speeds.) What [...]]]> http://sacredpauses.com/2010/08/cheap-grace/feed/ 0 http://sacredpauses.com/2010/06/an-amazing-day-meditation-in-poetry/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://sacredpauses.com/2010/06/an-amazing-day-meditation-in-poetry/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:59:13 +0000 Scribe http://sacredpauses.com/?p=661 An Amazing Day – meditation in poetry

An Amazing Day – meditation in poetry This is a short poem from e.e. cummings that inspires me, even on my days that are not textbook “Amazing.” Thank You For This Amazing Day by e.e. cummings i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue [...]]]> http://sacredpauses.com/2010/06/an-amazing-day-meditation-in-poetry/feed/ 0 http://sacredpauses.com/2010/05/ours-and-ours-a-meditation-for-memorial-day/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://sacredpauses.com/2010/05/ours-and-ours-a-meditation-for-memorial-day/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 18:53:31 +0000 Scribe http://sacredpauses.com/?p=658 Ours and Ours … a Meditation for Memorial Day

Ours and Ours … a Meditation for Memorial Day Not every soldier in the Great Battle wears camo. I thought it would be appropriate to submit this on Memorial Day weekend… as we take time to remember our own… Aunt Ida Pieces A Quilt by Melvin Dixon They brought me some of his clothes. The [...]]]> http://sacredpauses.com/2010/05/ours-and-ours-a-meditation-for-memorial-day/feed/ 0 http://sacredpauses.com/2010/05/what-wonders-do-you-share/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://sacredpauses.com/2010/05/what-wonders-do-you-share/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 02:36:00 +0000 Scribe http://sacredpauses.com/?p=655 What Wonders Do You Share?

What Wonders Do You Share? Today, think on this simple Call to Prayer as a meditation on what it is in our lives that is good, that blesses us, that which  blesses others through us. Even on the days that you may think that your life is on the Down side of the roller coaster, [...]]]> http://sacredpauses.com/2010/05/what-wonders-do-you-share/feed/ 0 http://sacredpauses.com/2010/05/character-is-born-in-us-not-learned-by-us/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://sacredpauses.com/2010/05/character-is-born-in-us-not-learned-by-us/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 20:32:16 +0000 Scribe http://sacredpauses.com/?p=651 Character is born in us, not learned by us.

Character is born in us, not learned by us. I spent my usual piano practice time today instead out piddling and hoeing in the Prayer Garden beside our house. The garden was commissioned as a private chapel in 2009 following the passing of our next door neighbor and very dear friend, Jean. She loved the [...]]]> http://sacredpauses.com/2010/05/character-is-born-in-us-not-learned-by-us/feed/ 0