Anamchara Books

08/22/2026

08/22/2026

What is the lion? What do you think Einstein meant?

08/19/2026

Drenched in holiness
Dear God,
On this day I ask You to grant this request:
May I know who I am and what I am,
Every moment of every day.
May I be a catalyst for light and love,
And bring inspiration to those whose eyes I meet.
May I have the strength to stand tall in the face of conflict,
And the courage to speak my voice, even when I'm scared.
May I have the humility to follow my heart,
And the passion to live my soul's desires.
May I seek to know the highest truth
And dismiss the gravitational pull of my lower self.
May I embrace and love the totality of myself?
My darkness as well as my light.
May I be brave enough to hear my heart,
To let it soften so that I may gracefully
Choose faith over fear.
Today is my day to surrender anything that stands
Between the sacredness of my humanity and my divinity.
May I be drenched in my Holiness
And engulfed by Your love.
May all else melt away.
And so it is.

Amen.

- by Debbie Ford, via jesuitresource.org (with thanks to U.S. Catholic magazine)

08/12/2026

REDISCOVER ENCHANTMENT

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08/09/2026

Poem: Benediction for the Heavy Heart by Mason Bolton
Breathe. For yourself. For each other.

Good morning. I missed your “good”
because a plane, because a truck, because
a gun, because a cop, because a government,
because a people suffering, because too many
people suffering, because war, because famine,
because some mornings it is so hard
to rise, to wake, to be a self.

There is a pause here. There is a deliberate
cessation. I want a cessation to the noise
in my head, to the ache in the collective
heart of this world. When I was young
this seemed possible. When I was young
how hope seemed to spring eternal.

I want to write about butterflies, about
the cracked edges of tree bark pressing
like a holy mother into palms. I want to write
about the joy of children’s cries, about birth,
about the arch of your smile, how I could
lose myself in the corners of your
sweet and grinning mouth. This you is
you reading this. I want for your joy,
want to lose myself in you. I want your
mornings “good,” your evenings “good,”
all the late-nights and sunrises and afternoons
and moments pressed against the ticking
glass of your life “good.”

Breathe. For yourself. For each other. Let
us breathe in when others cannot. When we
can do nothing else. Let us stretch ourselves
open to embrace our friends, to extend
our bodies open to anyone willing to meet us,
or even to meet those we think may not. Let us
hold each other for this moment. For this
blink of human existence.

Artist, Abbott Handerson Thayer - "Landscape at Fontainebleau Forest

08/07/2026

Belief is not a noun we possess but a verb we perform. The question shifts from “What’s your spiritual path?” to “What does your spiritual path lead you to do on a Tuesday morning when nothing feels meaningful?”

~Rob Brezsny

08/04/2026

Kenneth McIntosh, author of many our bestselling books, is also an experienced and trained labyrinth facilitator. Read more about his work with labyrinths here: https://uscatholic.org/articles/202608/how-labyrinth-traditions-fit-into-christian-spirituality/?fbclid=IwVERDUATfSexwZG9mBWZkaWQWUL3ZewSmBQdN_8OdSN0uT8EfzSEHXWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR6f46vHLzEJ1Vdwt09C5syv452sHS1h6inZVyuP5O-sYTpofztRowihOdBPjw_aem_AmK-Z9ED2PodHvrUiDukfw

Many cultures have spiritual traditions around labyrinths. In Christian spirituality, a labyrinth offers a path to healing and illumination.