During high school at TEC retreats, we received a stern warning: boys are blue, and girls are red—don’t make purple! While definitely a clear message from our leaders about social-sexual expectations, this binary warning also reveals the cultural undercurrents about our caution, concern, and even fear about what might happen when we mix up things that seem different—even opposite—from one another. Unfortunately, such worry and fear stifle the potentially transformative Power of Three.
Prayer in Spring Greens
First, we must acknowledge the coniferous family—pine, cedar, spruce, all the greens that held steady through the white of winter and remained firm and true, the darks of their greens expressing the depths of faithfulness. They are like meal prayers and Sunday liturgies and gratitude. The simplicity of their steady faithfulness helps in the hard, barren seasons.
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Contemplative Practice
Standing at Thresholds, There is Nothing to Attain
Over the last few years, the deaths of more than a few loved ones have gotten my heart and mind to turn over longstanding notions of life and death. I sit with a renewed sense of how thick, or thin, the veil between the living and the dead really is.
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Contemplative Practice
