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A Blessing from John O’Donohue and a Time for Reflection

John O’Donohue was an Irish poet, priest and philosopher, whose tender gift for words could touch even the most defended of hearts. I recently came across this beautiful blessing of his (below) and shared it with a Broadview United Church friend, the Reverend Margaret Harper. She was as moved as I and chose to use [...]

By Ramona McKean|2021-12-20T12:34:09-08:00December 20th, 2021|Language of the Heart, Poetry, Purpose & Destiny, Spirit Matters|10 Comments

Emily Dickinson and Hope for Our Times

What’s So on “the Outside” These are heavy times; some call them “evolutionary times.” The crumbling of the old is causing confusion and disillusionment. That there is no clear indication of the new (and how can there be at this stage?), is causing wide-spread fear. This is most dramatically apparent in the USA, but really, [...]

By Ramona McKean|2025-02-09T16:15:45-08:00November 28th, 2020|Blogs with Music Featured, Language of the Heart, Music, Nature, Poetry, Quotes & Pretty Pictures, Spirit Matters|16 Comments

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Sidney Rittenberg, author of The Man Who Stayed Behind, journalist, scholar, Chinese linguist, Professor of China Studies at Pacific Lutheran University, and subject of the documentary The Revolutionary