Author name: MaryBeth Scalice

The Gentle Teacher

Dear Hearts,In my meditation this week, I brought to Jess my thoughts about teachers of God, and the mistakes we make, sometimes clobbering those who have come vulnerably into our circles, using spiritual principles that deny or neglect their cry for help.  Absolute Truth can be used for ego’s purpose, a means to negate others

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Mr. Street

I don’t want to wake up, but I have to…What kind of opening is that?It is a statement of ignorance not wanting to give way.I breathe and stretch and rise from my mattress.  It is my thoughts at four am. that come for me; come from a rolling unrest somewhere deep inside The hours of

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Skinny Dip

Dear Hearts,   All of us know the caress of water.  Before the sprouting of hands and feet we floated in a womb of fluid softness, baptized before we saw the world’s light. Hidden there in water, indwelling, soothed by the murmur of our mother’s swirling blood we took form. We were held in innocence,

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