Entries by John Kiemele

Advent Day 10

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For today’s sweet treat, enjoy a contemplative poem written by John Kiemele from The Rolling Ridge Retreat Center in North Andover, Massachusetts. Enjoy “Light Comes” on Advent Day 10.

I am Pilgrim After All

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in this relocating season, with all parts swirling, i’m breathing deeply, embracing awareness into this sorting time this reminiscing time this packing time this cleaning time this tossing time… each […]

Present

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In the turning the churning of life today can I widen my schedule widen my eyes widen my heart and be present truly present Love longs to awaken stir inspire […]

I Am Breathing

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Tuesday, September five, two thousand seventeen. One o’clock in the afternoon I am breathing. I typically do not pay such attention to my breathing like this on a Tuesday afternoon, […]

Summer’s Invitation

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pause. pause on purpose. transformation needs all the time in the world as it depends upon the moments — slivers speckled between life’s rhythms that crave top billing and unquestioned […]

Connection

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At our closing retreat for Living From The Heart I sit observing – an easy and eager posture for me Gathering cohort friends cultivating over nine months of interacting reflecting, […]

Pausing During Holy Week

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To the Selah community, pause matters. Selah invites all people to pause and…”    During the events of Jesus’ final earthly week, I notice pause. Jesus hitting the pause button […]

God’s Initiating Love

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God’s initiating love… hovering, desiring, creating, prompting, birthing, inspiring, catalyzing, stirring, sparking, naming, reaching, reclaiming, reconciling, starting, repeating, breathing, walking, holding calling, giving, dying, arising, flowing, frustrating, disorienting, penetrating, transforming, […]

Nurture My Heart Soft

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Could it be that this winter’s recent string of frozen days is about to break?  Warming temps….sunny breaks….feels promising!  Although we cannot be certain exactly when the season’s grip will […]

Breathe In Breathe Out

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I have always had a precarious relationship with breathing.  My very first breaths were problematic, or so I have been told.  My childhood and school years were punctuated by asthmatic […]

Autumn Gold

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It was dazzling!  I looked out in the early morning sunrise hours and everything — literally everything — was awash in autumn gold.  I paused and simply soaked in this […]

Day by Day

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It is my sincere pleasure to share with you some thoughts and ponderings from other Companions from our Selah community.  This month’s reflection comes from Mary Pandiani. As a dispersed […]