

Finding God in the Twilight
There’s a line I once heard in a story: someone asked a monk, “So you speak with God?” And the monk replied, “No—I listen to God.” That answer feels like twilight to me. Not full daylight, when everything is visible and obvious. Not deep night, when we are wrapped in silence and hiddenness. Twilight is something in-between: part light, part shadow, just enough to see, but not enough to be certain. I think about the Northern Lights I had the wonderful opportunity to see during
Rick Raymond
Oct 15, 2025


May I Be a Boat, a Lamp, a Wish-Fulfilling Jewel ...
One of the most challenging and perhaps most important things I have strived for is humility, to value others as more important than...
Rick Raymond
Aug 14, 2025


What I Have To Be
The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words … It is beyond speech, it is...
Rick Raymond
Jul 31, 2025


The Spruce Came 600 Years Ago
Shuttling back and forth. The grasses feed the ants with seeds, and the ants feed the grasses with soil. They hand off life to one...
Rick Raymond
May 7, 2025


What Would the Divine Say
What would the Divine — the Ultimate Reality (1) — say if we arrived in heaven without the rest of humanity? (2) [1] Ultimate Reality”...
Rick Raymond
Jan 12, 2025


Wisdom Of Our Hands
"I recently visited Arkansas with my wife who was attending a conference at the University of Arkansas. We flew into Little Rock a few...
Rick Raymond
Mar 13, 2024


When Moments of Gratitude Touch Your Heart
Greetings, I hope this post finds you well. I invite you to journey with me, welcoming this holy holiday season, exploring the deep...
Rick Raymond
Dec 24, 2023


Look Within Yourself
Thanksgiving this year was wonderful - a 5-day, road-trip holiday that my wife and I spent with our son, his wife, and my daughter and...
Rick Raymond
Dec 5, 2023


Rabboni
July 22, The Feast of Mary of Magdalene Take inspiration from manifestation of your true nature. Those who have ears, let them hear....
Rick Raymond
Jul 23, 2023
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[i carry your heart with me(carry it in]
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is...
Rick Raymond
May 3, 2023


How to Transform Your Life
I keep company with fear, and dwell in the house of ignorance. Yet, I was brought forth in love, and love is my birthright. _ Psalm 51...
Rick Raymond
Apr 10, 2023


A Sharing of Your Gifts and the Grace of Reciprocity
I’ve been paying attention to the reciprocal relationships in my life lately; and find one of the easiest to recognize is photosynthesis_...
Rick Raymond
Mar 6, 2023


Hope, Elders and the Environment
Jane Goodall, as you likely recall, is known for her 60-year study of wild chimpanzees of Tanzania. She is a naturalist, anthropologist,...
Rick Raymond
Jan 20, 2023


Wishing You Season's Greetings of Joy, Peace and Love
I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets Proclaimed as a final wisdom by so many thinkers It is the ultimate and the...
Rick Raymond
Dec 13, 2022


A Promise of Peace, Joy and Love Where It Is Not Expected
As I move further into my seventh decade of life, I find developing within a transformational and relational experience of life, with a...
Rick Raymond
Oct 29, 2022


When the World Touches Your Heart
John Neafsey, in his book “A Sacred Voice is Calling” quotes Jose’ Garcia, author of School of the Heart” “What matters is that the world...
Rick Raymond
Oct 15, 2022


A Sacred Voice Is Calling You
Recently, I was on a retreat and met daily with a spiritual director. My meetings with her were a blessing. During these conversations, I...
Rick Raymond
Oct 7, 2022


I asked how you and God spoke
I asked how you and God spoke But my question did not allow you to be I now see, it’s not for me to seek your witness It rests for you to...
Rick Raymond
May 7, 2022


Reflections on Cherished Memories of Winter’s Solitude
“I guess memories were like other kinds of answers: they appeared on their own accord and in their own time. We just needed to make sure...
Rick Raymond
Jan 31, 2022


Recent Reflections from 9/11 on Silence and Ageless Understanding, Community and Peace
He received the talking stick when his turn came. He held it in his hand. He looked at it. He looked at all of us. He looked out at the...
Rick Raymond
Sep 14, 2021


Practicing Contemplation for Inner Silence, Centering of the Heart and Building Leadership
Away from the City and the sounds of traffic, emergency vehicles, and street exuberances, within the rustle of wind in the trees, I find...
Rick Raymond
Aug 24, 2021


The Elder Within: Re-affirming The Meaning Of Elderhood In Our Society and In Ourselves
Rick B Raymond February 12, 2021 The Elder Within “It used to be that elders were held in esteem, considerable esteem, as the...
Rick Raymond
Mar 18, 2021


Reflections On Sorrow, Surrender & Resignation - Stirring Feelings and the Imagination
Listening, recently, to the audible book “Beloved” by Toni Morrison and read by the author, I heard the sorrows
Rick B Raymond
Nov 16, 2020






