Treat your thoughts like leaves
9.01.2009 | Living Prayer Meditations - Contemplative Prayer
Chris Erdman
For three decades, I’ve studied and practiced various forms of the spiritual life and taught what I’ve discovered about how to pray, to live fully in the present... Read More
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9.22.2009
Beautiful words. Like our elders, leaves display their greatest beauty and wisdom in their death. I suppose that’s why I’ve always preferred fall over spring.
9.22.2009
Chris…nicely put. And honoring of the beauty of the aging process so often overlooked by our modern love of youth.
1.01.2010
[...] watching your thoughts like leaves floating along a gentle brook. [...]