Centering Way

The latest from Tending the Soul: this time Suzuki shares insights from her work at the potter's wheel...

"All this time while you are contemplating, pulling, shaping - you can never forget to stay centered, never let your mind wander too far ahead to the finished piece."

Tending the Soul: Centering Clay When you throw clay on a pottery wheel, before you work it into any distinct shape, it must be centered on the wheel.

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"Lately, I've also been invited to pay attention to the tempo of my life. "

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Tending the Soul: Tempo After last fall's Camino de Santiago week-long walk, I've been trying to live in the way this walk trained us. I'm watching daily for the signs, markers and arrows that God uses to point the way for my unique journey or life path. Lately, I've also been invited to pay attention to the tempo

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"The woods were my spiritual home, my monastery, and I was the silent mystic – when I wasn’t doing irritating things like chores or riding the school bus."

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Tending the Soul: Playground "Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his." - Girard Manley Hopkins   I am in love with my own city, and cities. I love my city’s skyline with its cash register and cranes, and its quirky grid of diagonal streets. I love the homes that

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"The centering way is a way that helps me become more aware of those lies so that I might be free of them - so that I might begin to catch a glimpse of the true answer to the question of who I am."

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Tending the Soul: The Elusive "I" Eminem got his big break in the hip hop world during my freshman year in high school. I instantly fell in love with his music and image, which eventually led me to cut my hair very short and bleach it blonde in an effort to communicate to those around me that I had an inner “Slim Shady.” The

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"Christ carries the disgrace of a squatter,
A trespasser, under the threat of eviction.
In the words of Jesus in Matthew's gospel:
I was a stranger and you did not invite me in."

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Tending the Soul: Movement to the Margins “God is at home. We are in the far country.” - Meister Eckhart “Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make people holy by his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.” - Hebrews 13:12-13 In every society, in every city, in every neigh

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"That’s the nuance I felt as I talked with Jasmine... she now finds herself on a tumultuous journey through the wilderness — a journey she would never have chosen."

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Tending the Soul: Jasmine's Pilgrimage     Jasmine’s 33rd birthday was the next day. We were laughing and talking about the joys (and pains) of getting one year older, and she told me with excitement about her plans to celebrate with her daughter. But her excitement quickly faded as she began telling me about her upcoming court