Cybernun’s new video features Brahms’ “How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place” (Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen), from his German Requiem.
How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
My soul longs, indeed it faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh sing for joy
to the living God. …
Happy are those who live in your house,
ever [...]
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Respecting Life
Posted in Creation on Oct 21st, 2008
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a human life is worth $900,000 less than it used to be. An MSNBC article from July 10 puts it this way:
Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences.
When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh [...]
Brother Sun, Sister Manta Ray
Posted in Creation on Apr 16th, 2005
During a tedious afternoon in a doctor’s waiting room, I flipped through an old National Geographic — from March of 1988 to be exact. One article contained a remarkable photo of a manta ray surrounded by swimmers. The caption has been haunting me ever since:
Gliding like a stealth bomber, a manta ray is anything but [...]
Our roof seems to be home to an entire ecosystem. Besides the fact that we have enough grass up there to keep a goat, we get inklings of varied life-forms and mysterious goings-on that we can’t see — or see only when they spill over into our lower world.
An early visitor was the five-foot-long rat [...]
Loving God,
grant that my faith may be as solid as the earth,
my heart as limpid as still water,
my mind as honest and straightforward as the sun’s light.
May my spirit be as docile to your Spirit
as the air to your creating Breath,
and may my presence on earth
never obstruct the vision of your Beauty.
May my own heart’s [...]