A “charism” is a spiritual gift given to share with others for their benefit. Clarence has been given the charisms of spiritual direction, writing poetry and painting. Over the past nine years, he has shared these gifts through his book Everyday Sacred and his monthly email, Connecting New. During this time many of you have affirmed that sharing these gifts has been uplifting, inspiring, thought-provoking or helpful to you in other ways. You have shared Connecting New emails with your friends. You have used poems from Everyday Sacred at retreats, weddings, funerals and many occasions in between. Now is the time for Clarence to share more through a daily piece of goodness. You can receive daily excerpts of these pieces of goodness by signing up from the contact page.
A Piece of Goodness
October 29 - Let me become empty, that you may fill me up. Let me become desolate, that my hunger for you may grow.
October 28 - The true test of faith is not believing in God or subscribing to a certain image of God, but rather believing in my own goodness.
October 26 - God was the fabric of the forest. Timeless energy, in the living, and in the dying and decay, in the air and the earth…
October 25 - The devil came to me disguised as more, one more good thing I could do, should do, and then another, and another.