Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost do not form three seasons. The Easter season celebrates the three dimensions of the resurrection, ascension, and the sending of the Spirit.

Even and especially in these difficult times, the Lenten journey can be an encouraging, enlightening path to hope, resilience, and new life.

May blessings abound for you where they are not expected.

His Dream still wishes to anoint
the barricades of faith and of control.

It isn’t just Jesus’ birthday. The whole of creation is reborn.

Looking for a spiritual retreat to tide you over in quiet contemplation during the holy days leading up to Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Day, and Epiphany? Here are many choices — some Christian and inclusive, others multifaith — from which you can find a perfect match for your needs.

We know now he gave us this meal
to nourish our endurance,

Maybe everything hurts,
Our hearts shadowed & strange.

Poem about Cambodia, Jackson State, Kent State Resonates Today

Meaningful Messages has been created to help you to find a sense of calm and contentment.

A lot of Christianity
has it wrong. 
We are not broken. 

God is still creating you. You are no less beautiful and wild than a sunset or a beach or a puffin. You are loved. You have a place here.

On this St. Patrick’s Day it is fitting to receive a blessing from a grand Irishman whose writing reaches into my soul.

“It is a hope that implores us at an uncompromising core to keep rising up for an Earth more than worth fighting for.”

The words of Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate, from her moving poem during the inauguration of Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris as President and Vice-President of the United States of America.

Human child of human mother,
see the Christ has come to birth,
demonstrating now in living
every person’s human worth.

And will those feet in modern time,
Walk upon earth’s fair mountains green?

Confronting the crisis facing Christianity, this anthology of post-modern, progressive Christian poems, with a rebellious tone, demythologizes Christian theology. Poems, Piety and Psyche is a brave departure from literal Christian dogma and challenges the outdated ideas of doctrine and Scripture to disclose hidden truths still valid today.