Tuesday -- This week, the gifts of Grace and Gratitude.And it bears repeating, grace is not something you add to your life. Like a creedal quiz response, “I believe in grace.” Check.Which is all well and good... however, grace happens when…
Tuesday -- This week, we are invited to absorb daily miracles. The permission to honor listening, or attention (seeing) without judgment. And I love this: when we pay attention (“Wow. Did you see that?”), we create a fabric in our…
Tuesday -- This week we are asking, where does hope live? And, when the world feels upside down--when our spirit feels fractured or frightened or empty--where do we go?As we honor the memory of 9/11, and the lives lost, and…
Tuesday -- This week we are taking Jimmy Buffett’s lyrics to heart...“And there's that one particular harbourSheltered from the windWhere the children play on the shore each dayAnd all are safe within” We need to remember and be embraced by…
Tuesday -- A tender heart is a gift to embrace. And here’s the good news; this is not a project or assignment or test. It is a gift to spill. A gift that changes the world.When we live from tenderness,…
Tuesday -- "We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight,” is our reminder this week, from Poet Jack Gilbert.The gift in our story yesterday, the delighted child in the Post Office, waiting for her Mamma, savoring…
Tuesday -- I’ve been asked, too often in my life, what I believe. My favorite variation, is any inquiry about my doctrinal statement. This begins a volley of theological catch phrases, which become de facto passwords for many religious organizations.…
Tuesday -- This week, E.B. White’s wonderful reminder, "Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world,…
Tuesday -- This week, our reminder is from the tribal chief’s talk with the children about the colonial officials who visited them. “They miss so much of the joy of today all around them... They miss much of the present…
Tuesday -- Not that long ago, I danced with manatees. Lord have mercy, it was good.I was in Manasota Key, Florida, my annual May gathering with my friends of forty years. We swap stories and talk about the way the…
