Daily Dose (Jan 31 – Feb 3)
Tuesday -- This week… To love at all (anything in life) is to be vulnerable. I get it. I do.What troubles me, is that when I feel unnerved or unsettled or afraid, I become wary of the very gifts—thoughts, feelings,…
Love with open arms and heart
Sherry Turkle visited a Darwin exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History with her teenage daughter. At the entrance of the show stood a cage with two grand Galapagos turtles. Magnificent creatures from a fantasy world.Feeling sorry for the…
Daily Dose (Jan 24 – 27)
Tuesday -- A young couple moved into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the washing outside."That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly.…
Grace, outside the box
Tommy was his parent's pride and joy. A very bright, creative and contented little boy, he began kindergarten with his parent's certainty that he would flourish. At the end of the first week, Tommy brought home pictures he had colored.…
Daily Dose (Jan 17 – 20)
“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve,” Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us. “You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart…
Love will show the way
On one day in 2013, I walked across a bridge. The sun shone down from a bleached blue sky. The air was cool, but our spirits don't notice, as we stand and sing under the sign, Edmund Pettus Bridge. We…
Daily Dose (Jan 10 – 13)
Tuesday -- This week... what I know for certain is that starting down that path of determining “right or wrong” life, assures the fact that we will avoid (and definitely miss) this life.So. My new year resolution is an invitation;…
Bring your whole heart
I confess that I haven’t gotten around to making any new year resolutions. I was reminded this morning in a marketing email, “Terry, What are you aiming for in 2023? What does success look like?”I have nothing against lists, per…
Daily Dose (Jan 3 – 6)
Tuesday -- This week we’re talking about Lagniappe ("lan-yap"). (It is an old Creole word that means “something extra”.)It is the permission to receive—to be embrace by—the gift of grace.The gift of sufficiency (over and against scarcity).It’s important to pause…
Receive the gift of grace
In the town of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, there is a church named Lagniappe ("lan-yap"). It is an old Creole word that means “something extra”.Pastor Jean Larroux explains, "Down here if you go into a seafood shop and order a…
