Every day after school, the young son of a well-known Rabbi would enter his house, place his backpack on the dining room table, leave the house through the back door and head into the woods behind the house.At first, the…
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their place. It needs people…
Our hearts carry the 19 children and 2 teachers who were killed in Uvalde. And I hear a Mother say to a reporter, remembering her 10-year-old daughter, “Please tell me that our children did not die in vain.”We live in…
More than ever we need sustenance, places of sanity and restoration. When we’ve been through—or are going through—a time of upheaval, we need the permission to give ourselves the gift of stillness and sanctuary. To remember the sufficiency that is…
Some stories are good for whatever ails us.The husband knew he could not adequately care for his wife, now in the final stages of Alzheimer's. He found a compassionate facility, and visited her every day. At noon for lunch.Not 11:59.Not…
There were times this week, sitting at my computer writing Sabbath Moment, when I couldn’t take my eyes off the news, watching pain and suffering and inhumanity in real time. I couldn't move, tears scrolling down my cheeks.“My body itself…
Caroline was very sad. Caroline was only six years old and her father had just died. In fact, her father had been assassinated.Sitting in the back of big black limousine, Caroline Kennedy didn't quite know what to do with her…
Two brothers, living on adjoining farms, fell into conflict. In forty years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, providing mutual support and assistance whenever needed, it is their first rift. But it doesn't take much, does it? A conflict…
A young minister returned to his hometown in north Georgia. He struck up a conversation with an old farmer. They stood by the fencerow and watched as a new picking-machine rolled through a cotton field. Until now, the farmer had…
“Holiday plans are a little catawampus,” I tell the sheep.“What are holiday plans,” one asks.“When you have a whole lot up in the air, you try to make plans,” I explain.“Do you have any plans,” another asks.“Well, not really. But…
