The Wheel of Life

The Wheel of Life
"Cosmic Tree"/ Wheel of Life" illustration from "Scivias"

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Good Shepherd Jericho's "Listening Table" is an informal "Spirituality in Nature Group" that gathers weekly to listen to poems about nature, to the natural environment surrounding us, and to journal, sketch, and compose any artistic rendering one might wish. Our goal is to help participants listen more mindfully to creation and to one another. This blog is a resource space for our time together and a safe space for participants to extend conversations and to share works in progress. This gathering table is not an explicitly religious activity, and anyone in the extended community, whoever and whereever they might be in life's journey is welcomed to participate, the only requirement being kindness and mutual respect. No prior spiritual or artistic training is expected, but people of all traditions are welcome

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Proposed Schedule of Gatherings with Themes and Featured Poems :

 Proposed Schedule of Gatherings with Themes and Featured Poems :


June 20 Introductions: Who is Hildegard? Why  a Table?

Hildegard of Bingen , “Antiphon of Divine Wisdom”, “Antiphon of the Holy Spirit”  



June 27 Mind and Soul     

Mary Oliver “Mindfulness”,When I am among the trees”, “Wild Geese”

William Wordsworth, “World Is Too Much With Us”, “There was a Boy”

Wendell Berry, “Wild Geese” , “The Peace of Wild Things”

Meister Eckhart “When I Was the Forest”, “The Hope of Loving”, “An Insidious Idol”

July 4, No Gathering,   U. S.  Independence Day


July 11 Time and Change

William Shakespeare, “Sonnets 15, 73

Yehuda Amichai, “An Arab shepherd  searching for his goat”. The Little Park Planted

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover”, “Nature a Hericlitean Fire”, “Spring and Fall”

John Keats, “To a Nightingale” , “To Autumn”


July 18 Birds 

William Butler Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole

Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers”, “Wild Nights”

Robert Frost, “Never Again Would Birds Song Be the Same” , “The Oven Bird”


July 25 Earth and Sky

Francis of Assisi, “Canticle of the Sun”

Christina Rosetti, “Amor Mundi”

Basho, “In Kyoto”, “Wake Butterfly!”


Aug  1 Trees, Grass, Flowers

Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass”, “I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak”

Louise Gluck, “Trilium”

Margaret O’Brien, “Mothering God”

Kabir, “How Humble is God?


Aug 8 Love and Suffering

Billy Collins, “Aimless Love”, “Today”

Tagore,  “The Boat”,”Waiting”, “Gitanjali” ,“On the Nature of Love”

Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Sympathy”, “The Corn-Stalk Fiddle”

Julian of Norwich, “Oneing”


Aug 15 Divine Intimacy

Rabia, “The Sky Gave Me Its Heart”, “A Lover Who Wants His Lovers Near”

Rumi “Say I Am You”, “The Way Wings Should”, “How Does God Keep from Fainting”

Hafiz “How Did the Rose?” , “Startled By God”. “I Have Come Into the World to See This”

Thomas Aquinas, “The Mandate” , “The Pulse of God”


Aug  22 Final Summer Gathering, Taking Stock, Future Planning


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