Scarritt Bennett Center Blog

Guest house in the woods
Your Guest House Can Get Crowded at Times

One of my favorite poems to use for the meditation practice of lectio divina ("sacred reading") is “The Guest House” by Rumi, as translated by Coleman Barks: The Guest HouseThis being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,Some momentary...

Read More
Mental Health
May is Mental Health Month

What do Isaac Newton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Abraham Lincoln, Vincent Van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr., Diana, Princess of Wales, Carrie Fisher, Mariah Carey, Jane Pauley, Parker Palmer, and 1 in 5 Americans have in common? All have all have made contributions to...

Read More
AANHPI Heritage Month

Posted 4.23.21 -The change of seasons brings a heightened awareness to our senses. Spring is beginning to slip in with green shoots poking their way out of winter’s dormancy. Leaves and delicate buds on the trees somehow seem to make the birds songs sweeter. Or...

Read More
Awareness Month

Posted 4.23.21 -The change of seasons brings a heightened awareness to our senses. Spring is beginning to slip in with green shoots poking their way out of winter’s dormancy. Leaves and delicate buds on the trees somehow seem to make the birds songs sweeter. Or...

Read More
The Wisdom of Creation

Posted 4.23.21 -The change of seasons brings a heightened awareness to our senses. Spring is beginning to slip in with green shoots poking their way out of winter’s dormancy. Leaves and delicate buds on the trees somehow seem to make the birds songs sweeter. Or...

Read More
Just Two Women

Posted 4.2.21 - While he was at Bethany in the house of Simo the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on...

Read More
Praise God With Joy

Posted 3.26.20 - When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt...

Read More
Written On The Heart

Posted 3.19.20 - The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them...

Read More