Tonight is an auspicious night. It is the night before Brigitte’s day, which is February 1. In Ireland and in other countries nowadays it is in some circles custom to hang a cloth outside, that will be blessed by Brigitte during the night. The cloth can be used during the year for healing. The photo is from a cloth in Canada. We started a new dream ( Read more... )

I have a big book with spiritual quotations. It is old, from 1983. It gives me peace to search for a quotation, or even better, take one randomly and pick a card about it. Today I have worked with one that I chose randomly.
“Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”
The Old Testament, ( Read more... )

I picked a card from the Buddha Tarot to look back on my day. This morning, walking to a tram stop, I got sick and I am ashamed to say, I’ve vomited on the sidewalk. My stomach was suddenly upset. It was early, so there were not many people that saw it. Happily we got the tram stop in time, but the experience stayed with me all day and the feeling ( Read more... )

“When humanity fills the heart, when its gentleness renders susceptible its thoughts and feelings, the softest breath of God’s Spirit can bend it earthward to help the needy, and downward to supplicate and welcome heaven’s grace. But when it is frozen through and through with pride, it coldly resists the overtures of mercy, and in its deadness is ( Read more... )

“When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.”
Micah 7:8

What is the light for me today? I have pulled the Lovers from the Buddha Tarot. An important theme of the Lovers card is choice; going for what you love. On the card we see Siddhartha (the later Buddha) who leaves his wife Yasodhara and their child because he feels his life is ( Read more... )

"Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven
This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;
The rueful conflict, the heart riven
With vain endeavor,
And memory of Earth’s bitter leaven
Effaced forever."
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Thoughts Suggested on the Banks of the Nith

I asked: “What is my vain endeavor?” I received Asita - The Seer, the equivalent of the ( Read more... )

“O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire thee with our whole heart; that so desiring we may seek and find thee; and so find finding thee, may love thee.”
Saint Anselm (1033-1109)
Cur Deus Homo

I’ve picked a card from the Buddha Tarot to the following subject: “The grace I am granted to desire God.” I have pulled the Hermit as a response to this, ( Read more... )