About: Lenny Scovel

A prayer of Homecoming: We are grateful for journeys completed and safely returning home. Exploration brings new wonders, new understandings and deeper wisdom to our lives, but it is in arriving back to the climes of familiarity that we process our souvenirs into the DNA of our souls. Rejuvenation and renewal fortify us to begin… read more

So many things to be known in a life! To be seen, felt, heard, and experienced. A bow drawn on the strings of a cello. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The precision of the surgeon’s scalpel. Isadora Duncan. Algebraic manipulations. How can we do it all? If life is experience, how do we maximize… read more

“Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain.” Let us be mindful, then, that an abundance of words often leads to mis-speech, mis-meaning, mis-understanding, and misery. May we say only what we truly mean, and truly mean what we say. May we use our words to nobler purpose, to affirm higher ideals, and… read more

A prayer for faraway friends. We are separated by miles and circumstance, by means but not by meaning. I see your pain, and I despair: how might I lend you my resources? How might I carry your burden? How might I ease your suffering? Would that I could wire you some compassion, or mail you… read more

A prayer for light in the darkness. For order out of chaos. For compassion without forgiveness. For abiding love. For relationship. For mourning. For mourning in the mourning. For phones that ring late at night. For tears. For remembrance. Again, for abiding love. For love that never dies. For each of us, and for all… read more

May today bring expedient joy and undelayed gratification. May our wishes come true. May happiness reign supreme. May our pockets be full. May the sun shine brightly with the wind at our back. May everyone we encounter greet us with a smile. May we hear no words other than encouragement or affirmation. May today be… read more

O, Wondrous Family – a prayer for separation and deliverance. Our lives are entwined, woven in the tapestry of humanity. I am the warp, and you are the weft. Now we are together, now we are apart. I cross over you, you pass under me. I am magenta, you aquamarine. Together we are strong, united,… read more

We encounter many obstacles in the course of our living.  Physical and emotional obstacles, or financial, or spiritual.  Each has its own inherent challenge, and those challenges attack us at our core.  That is the nature of obstacles, and why we dread them.  How we choose to deal with them, however, is what defines us.… read more

We are, each of us, the mirrors by which we see and know ourselves; we are distressed when our reflections are unrecognizable. Is it because we truly don’t know ourselves? Is it because the mirror gives a distorted vision, due to its own cracks and imperfections? Yes, and yes. Life is a process by which… read more

Today is the day for inspiration!  Today is the day to recognize the next possibility!  Today is the day to imagine!  Today is the day for creative thinking!  Today is the day for compassionate action!  Today is the day for deep listening!  Today is the day to explore new opportunities!  Today is a day like… read more