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Beth's blog on the Virtual Tea House
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Engaging the spirituality of everyday, ordinary life. Great bloggers, stories of hope, healing and wisdom. Resources for connection.
Recent Posts
God is always needing to be born
If you want, the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy and say… “I need shelter for the night, please take me inside your heart, My time is so close.” Then under the roof of your soul, you will witness the sublime intima...
Ten things I’ve been paying attention to this week—December 20, 2009
1. Water pipes that freeze every year eventually will break. Duh. 2. Sometimes saying hard things to people you love—well, you’d rather have your fingernails pulled out. 3. Everything is connected. If I can’t see it, it’s because...
Sobonfu Some talks about Women’s Wisdom and Grief
Many of you are familiar with Malidoma Some’s work with men and initiation, flowing from his tribal connections to the African Dagara. His now ex wife Sobonfu Some has some equally powerful things to say about women’s processes. This ...
Me and my hip wait for the solstice*
At the juncture where the iliacus and the psoas muscles entwine On the corner of my right hip and my future self All manner of constrictions are brought to the surface So they can be have their say. Last week, December 12, I fell down six stairs onto...
Uncle Francis and the Gift of Enough
When I was about three or maybe four, my Uncle Francis on some sort of leave from the state mental hospital, visited our farm in upstate Pennsylvania and brought me a book that weighed almost as much as I did. It was a large, coffee-table book, dusky...
joy, unearthed
This poem is a response to a Poetry Party that is hosted regularly at Abbey of the Arts. This particular 'party' as part of Advent is about true joy…that essence deeper than happiness. It is the bedrock from which we grow as children, then learn to...

