Pondering Everyday Sacraments Part 10 – Signs of Justice

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr

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Pondering Everyday Sacraments Part Nine – Fog

"Baptized into fog, we die to designations, definitions, that we may dive deeper to where the hidden dwells."

Ron Atkinson

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Pondering Everyday Sacraments Part Eight – Water

"In one drop of water are found the secrets of all the endless oceans; in one aspect of you are found all the aspects of existence."

-Kahlil Gibran

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Pondering Everyday Sacraments Part Seven – Wind

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

-Khalil Gibran

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Pondering Everyday Sacraments Part Six – Stones.

"Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been."

- David Cuschieri

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Pondering Everyday Sacraments Part Five – Quiet

“I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.”

- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Pondering Everyday Sacraments Part Four – Stars.

"I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am a symphony of the stars. - Rumi"

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Pondering Everyday Sacraments: Smoke

This week we look at the place smoke has in our lives. From the increasing presence of summer smoke from catastrophic forest fires, to the cleansing smoke of ritual. We ask that our throats burn with truth, and our eyes sting with compassion.

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

~ William Shakespeare

Pondering Everyday Sacraments: Clouds

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why do I love clouds?

Because you can’t save a cloud

like you can save a leaf or

a flower or a rock – clouds are now.”

- Terri Guillemets

Pondering Everyday Sacraments: Flowers.

"I wonder how we missed the forest for the trees? How did the Christian tradition come to think we could ever count sacraments? That on one hand, or two hands, we could count all the number of sacraments, the number of sacred moments, the number of sacred things that dispense grace." Minister Nancy Steeves.

A Sacrament

Become that high priest,

the bee. Drone your way

from one fragrant

temple to another, nosing

into each altar. Drink

what's divine—

and while you're there,

let some of the sacred

cling to your limbs.

Wherever you go

leave a small trail

of its golden crumbs.

In your wake

the world unfolds

its rapture, the fruit

of its blooming.

Rooms in your house

fill with that sweetness

your body both

makes and eats.

—Paulann Petersen