Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations
November 9 – November 14, 2025
Sunday
All we have to do is walk outside and gaze at one leaf, long and lovingly, until we know, really know, that this leaf is a participation in the eternal being of God.
Our relationship to reality allows us to meet things center to center or subject to subject, inner dignity to inner dignity.
—Richard Rohr
Monday
Sacramental vision means not only that we grow in our love of God’s ways in the world, but also that we grow in our sense of kinship with creation. —Christine Valters Paintner
Tuesday
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Wednesday
When Jesus spoke the words “This is my Body,” I believe he was speaking not just about the bread right in front of him, but about the whole universe, about every thing that is physical, material, and yet also spirit-filled. —Richard Rohr
Thursday
The sacrament of baptism becomes a symbol that all water is sacred, not just the water present in the baptismal font.
Because it is sacred, we need to honor water, take care of water, and treat it with holiness, reverence, and love.
—Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Friday
I define “sacred” as that which pulls us beyond the bounds of our individual selves, envelops us within mystery, and gives us a glimpse into the vast, entwined, eternal network of living beings that we are in relationship with.
—Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Week Forty-Six Practice
Recalling Ceremony
Randy and Edith Woodley describe some of the different ways Native American tribes have traditionally honored the sacramental nature of reality:
Among Native Americans, spirituality is integral in everything. It’s tangible. Whether ceremony or just the way we conduct ourselves daily, the entirety of life is viewed as a sacred, spiritual path.
That is why we talk about the Harmony Way as a lifeway, not a philosophy or ethic or even a religion.
We have noticed people from various tribes doing their own traditional version of morning prayers: Keetoowahs who begin the morning with prayer, and a type of water ceremony at a river or creek; Kiowas who burn cedar each morning; Washoes who begin the day by washing their face with water, preferably with water from Lake Tahoe; Muskogee people who face the morning sun for their daily prayers.
These early morning times of prayer serve as a tangible reminder to Indigenous people that each day is sacred. In this way Native American spirituality is expressed tangibly using water, sunlight, smoke, and many other symbols. But these symbols are also wholly integrated in our hearts.…
Our tangible spirituality as Native Americans includes ceremonies and traditions. For instance, each year the Karuk people of northern California have an annual Earth renewal ceremony, in which they take seriously their role as humans to heal the Earth.
Ceremony may be associated with personal worship and also practiced communally, such as through Earth renewal ceremonies. Ceremonies that began ages ago, as a way of recreating the seasons or renewing the Earth, have now taken on more personal meanings….
As a Keetoowah, I (Randy) wash my face ceremonially each morning. I do this at the sink, because we do not have a creek or spring on our property, but I render it into ceremony.
I pray in a specific ceremonial way while I do it. Times change, but our spirituality, and the tangible ways it is expressed, stays constant.
How might you think about ceremony in your own life?
Have you looked into the meaning of symbols in your own ancestry?
Is there a group with whom you talk about spiritual things? Could the group come up with a practice that connects you to the land or water—even something small?
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