Colin HoogerwerfinSpirituality BeliefsThe Deep End of HopeI’ve been thinking a lot about hope recently. I’ve also been reading a lot about the arctic. The book I finished most recently was…Dec 7, 2021Dec 7, 2021
Colin HoogerwerfinThe ShortformThe Mountains Were Made of MudI once thought that all mountains were alike. That was when I was only a child, living in a place where the only mountains were made of…Nov 18, 2021Nov 18, 2021
Colin HoogerwerfinThe ShortformIt Wasn’t Quite Picture PerfectThe foreground was all highway and drab desert scrub, unlit by the sun sinking behind the mountains. The composition was all off; too wide…Nov 15, 2021Nov 15, 2021
Colin HoogerwerfinThe ShortformPrayer is a Bell CurveThe voices were a bell curve. Some version of each word is always a bit ahead and behind and then in the middle, the muddled rest.Nov 1, 2021Nov 1, 2021
Colin HoogerwerfinKnow Thyself, Heal ThyselfAs We Wait to PraySomeone asks for a volunteer to pray. We all look at our Zoom screens (we still don’t know how to avoid eye contact in this new medium)…Nov 1, 2021Nov 1, 2021
Colin HoogerwerfThe Use of SilenceSome say that total silence is an impossibility. For us, humans, anyway. Remove the sound that you usually hear, the whir and clank of…Oct 25, 2021Oct 25, 2021
Colin HoogerwerfTo Be Like the GroundWalked upon unconsidered yet relied upon. Giving life always outward receiving it back used and empty. To be not one but a conglomeration…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
Colin HoogerwerfShedding skinWhen we came together we left behind traces of ourselves dried and crinkled and semi-transparent little selfish longings and freedoms which…Oct 7, 2021Oct 7, 2021
Colin HoogerwerfFor Those Who Know the WayStep softly the ferns you tread are complicated beasts although their dainty leaves may have you thinking otherwise. Love, they may not…Oct 6, 2021Oct 6, 2021
Colin HoogerwerfGod in the NoticingThere’s a little chapel, near a lake, at a summer camp in the Adirondack mountains. It is evening and the campers have all gone back to…Oct 5, 20213Oct 5, 20213
