All the Gifts of Life

Collected Meditations, Volume Three

These selections were previously published in the following UUA meditation manuals: In the Simple Morning Light (Barbara Rohde), Green Mountain Spring and Other Leaps of Faith (Gary Kowalski), Noisy Stones (Robert Walsh) and The Rock of Ages at the Taj Mahal (Meg Barnhouse).

Series includes Day of Promise, What We Share, Listening for Our Song and Singing in the Night.

Everything around you is a manifestation of a
reality that is a unity.
It is there in the maple tree, in the polished
beach stone, in the cumulus cloud.
It is there in the tilled soil, the clapboard siding,
the comfortable chair.
It is in the child's laugh, the worker's sweat, your
face in the mirror.
It is in the fear of war, the anger at injustice, the
longing for love, the commitment to reconciliation.
The many truths spring from the one truth, and
the beginning of wisdom is to open ourselves to the
mystery of the one truth. May the moments of
awareness be there in your days, and in mine, too.
—Robert Walsh, from "The One Truth"