The Journey That is Lent

We’re in Lent. The word comes from a Germanic root, the Anglo-Saxon Lencton meaning lengthen, for the days are growing longer now and hope of spring is in the air. The crocuses are peeping out of the snow and in some warm valleys the almond trees begin to bloom. 

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Lenten Reflection

This is the Lenten season, when we’re invited to give up something “for Lent,” for God.

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Out of Gas

One day my friend Doug was returning from a Unitarian Universalist General Assembly in Portland, Oregon. Driving down I-84 just south of Twin Falls, Idaho, while listening to Rene Fleming's CD Sacred Songs, he said a prayer. He wanted to feel God's unconditional love. 

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The Voice

Have you ever heard a disembodied voice speak aloud outside your head? Not another person, but a voice? 

These are rare and dramatic occurrences, but they happen more frequently than you might think: A nurse suddenly hears an external voice call out, "Run! Check Room 12!" and finds the patient there has ripped out his life support. 

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Animal Painting

What happens to our animals when they die? Recently I got a letter from Janina Brooks in Ontario, Canada, who had lost her two beloved German Shepherds. 

Soon after they died, she woke up at 3:00 a.m. to see small glittering lights floating and flashing round the room. The spots grew bigger. They whirled and swirled around, landing on the floor in a ball and then transmuting into what looked to her like a howling head. She thought they were her dogs, but when the lights suddenly shot toward her, she was so frightened that she ran out of the room.

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Visitations of Christ

Not long ago I got a letter from a woman who said she had always loved angels, always felt the angels hovering around her, surrounding her with love. But recently it was not angels but Jesus. She said that the presence of Christ felt entirely different, although she could not describe the sensation or difference. I sympathize.
           

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A Spiritual Principle

I have found that when I want something passionately and constantly and with all my heart, the universe eventually brings it to me.

The thing is that I don’t get it on my timetable and never in the way I would have imagined. Instead it comes to me later, when I’m not thinking about it!  

Have you ever had that experience? “My gosh! I remember wanting that,” you say in surprise. “And here it is! How wonderful!”

Several spiritual principles are involved:

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Christmastime

This is the time of year when our thoughts turn to loving-kindness. We long for harmony, peace, simplicity. Too often we find loneliness and despair. 

Last year at the holidays, I was at the hospital, waiting, irritated, to see my doctor, and anything but peace and loving-kindness was on my jaw-clenched mind. I had things to do. And here I was, waiting!

My foot jiggled. My fingers tapped. Impatient, annoyed, I despised the surly clerks behind their desks, the pitiful tinsel tree on the counter with its hopeless ornaments.

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Prayers of the Heart

Angels are such interesting beings. It seems they are different from spirits and ghosts. When you see an angel (more commonly you “feel” one), you are swept up in warmth, safety and unfathomable tender love. Mother! cries your soul, or Home!

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Talking Like the Angels Talk

No words in the English language give more pause than “I’ve been thinking.” But I’ve been thinking lately about angels—and why we aren’t more grateful for the blessings poured on us.

Angels are messengers of God. Their business is to watch over us, guarding, guiding, loving, caring—because being a human is hard. We can’t do it all alone!

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