Entries by Mary Pandiani

Good Morning

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On the Pulse of the Morning (Excerpt) …Lift up your eyes uponThis day breaking for you.Give birth againTo the dream….Here, on the pulse of this new dayYou may have the […]

Am I Really a Contemplative?

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Someday I Will Visit Hawk Mountain By M. Soledad Caballero I will be a real birder and know raptorsby the shape of their wings, the span of themagainst wide skies, the […]

Hosanna

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  I will wave palm branches today. Yes, I know they will be burned tomorrow; I know my praise will turn to betrayal. My hope will vanish into terror. I […]

I Call You Friend

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Sirach is right.  Absolutely right.  A faithful friend is a “sturdy shelter.”  A faithful friend is a “life-saving remedy.”A faithful friend is “beyond price.”  And so, my friend, I say […]

O Incomprehensible One

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O Incomprehensible One, you have taken the sharp knife of this life and hollowed me out. Scraped my insides. Everything taken. Scoured. Empty. You have punched holes in me in […]

Embodied

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The Word was God And EVERYTHING was created Through Him. He chose to become embodied, as fertilized egg, embryo, and baby, To limit Himself And know what it means to […]

A Light Hold

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  Strangely after years of more clutching, grasping, weaving, planting – more insisting all remains – blew a gentle breeze inviting something else for tired hands: A light hold. Ego’s […]

Catch Me in My Scurrying

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Catch me in my anxious scurrying, Lord, and hold me in this Lenten season: hold my feet to the fire of your grace and make me attentive to my mortality […]

Let Your God Love You

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Be silent. Be still. Alone.  Empty Before your God Say nothing. Ask nothing. Be silent. Be still. Let your God Look upon you. That is all. He knows. He understands. […]

Bless, O God, the Ordinary

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“My tattered, non-descript, black purse that holds a hundred snapshots Of days and weeks gone by- Of coffees lingered over with friends, The book that cried out to be purchased, […]