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The One Who Sings Through Me….

The Music Director of a congregation where I’ve shared my music and led services is planning a Hymn Sing, featuring the music of UU composers. She asked me to write something about my music, to share in the program: “Singing is my spiritual practice, an intentional response to Life. Sometimes the response is silence, listening…

Pup Tent Cocoon

CONFESSIONS OF A RELUCTANT CATERPILLAR Notes from a pup tent cocoon by Mary Grigolia I’m not big on camping. I’m a city girl. I like the idea of sleeping under the stars. But it’s the mosquitoes and twigs and pebbles and finding my way to the bathroom in the middle of the night that put me…

Dearest One

What do you call God? After years pretending not to notice the Presence that is everywhere, the yearning for that most profound relationship outweighed my objections. A term of endearment emerged: “Dearest One!” – for God, Mystery, Presence, partner, family, companions in meditation. And yet no term is big enough for the love we embody:…

Be Still and Know

When I was eight, sitting still, waiting for school assembly to begin, marveling at sunlight playing on the skin of my arm, I heard an inner voice, “The Christ is within.” “Of course it is!” replied the Self-assurance of the child. Years later, when I heard these words from Psalm 46:10, I felt them ringing…

All My Relations, Singing!

After a near-death experience (1975) and my parents’ deaths (1979, 1982), I’ve been drawn to the threshold between life and death and to meditative states to calm the mind/body and help us let go. How do we cut through the western habit of seeing the body as a pesky object to subdue? Through the power…

A Hole in the Flute of God

My intention this year is to share Spirit Song, 2, – 28 new songs and chants from the Mystery. The first song is A Hole in the Flute of God: I am a hole in the flute of God; listen to the music! (can you hear Rumi?) I am a song on the breath of God; listen to the…

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