Author Archives: Christy Wesselman

While sorting through images I’ve saved through the years, I came across this one from a trip to Seattle to visit a friend about 6 years ago.  My friend and I decided to venture out of the city to take a ferry over to Lopez Island northwest of Seattle in the Pacific ocean for someContinue reading “Here, there be dragons”

While driving through town this morning around 10:30 on one of the backstreets in a part of town which could be characterized as marginalized, low income, immigrant, rental row houses.  I had cut through the back street to avoid High Street and all the traffic lights – not that town has a great deal ofContinue reading “Siddhartha, Suffering and Death”

  What is freedom?  What does it mean to you to “be free”? Is it free to do whatever you want? Free to worship and believe what you feel is right for you? Free to speak your passions and beliefs? Freedom from worry, stress, anxiety, fear? Free to create, do a job, have a careerContinue reading “Freedom”

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak yourContinue reading “Be a Rainbow”

I am polishing my preparations for a retreat day on Creation Spirituality, Francis and John Denver scheduled for tomorrow from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM EST at the Oldenburg Franciscan Center.  I look forward to spending a few hours sharing my thoughts, reflections and prayers with the participants.  Whenever I lead a retreat, I feelContinue reading “All will be well . . .”