Daily dose (Feb 21 – 24)
This week we are invited to carry—and spill—the light. We learn this from the courage of a woman in The Church of the Exceptional, and from the light she carried. Her story from Jimmy Carter’s book, Our Endangered Values. …
Daily Dose (Feb 14 – 17)
Tuesday -- There’s a story about a teenage boy mysteriously losing weight.His doctor, stumped by the symptoms, huddled with several other caregivers to decide which medical tests to run. There was no shortage of assessments and opinions, and quarrels about…
Daily Dose (Feb 7 – 10)
Tuesday -- “Sometimes the world tries to knock it out of you. But I believe in music.” August RushAnd yes, music is a part of our DNA, “woven into the very structure and sensorium of our bodies” (thank you, Maria…
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,…
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.…
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…
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;…
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…
Daily Dose (Dec 27 – 30)
Tuesday -- This week, we ask the question, "Instead of finishing the year strong, can we embrace the gift of finishing the year soft?" Rested and at home in our own skin. You know... Open to gratitude, and compassion, and…
Daily Dose. (Dec 20 – 23)
Tuesday -- Tell me again the reason for Advent season?What if the power is in the waiting itself, in the awareness waiting creates?Here’s the deal: With awareness comes gratitude, fueled by gladness and joy.With gratitude weights are lifted, and there is…
