Tuesday -- Today is the fourth day of Christmas. And in this week before the New Year, time to tidy up or rearrange, or get snowed in, or have your flight cancelled, or find yourself quarantined from Covid exposure. Yes,…
Tuesday -- This week, we’re talking about the invitation to wake up. And Advent is "awakened waiting," which involves being roused, being shaken up. You see, Emmanuel, God-with-us, gets it. Everything human and the permission to live awake.And how if…
Tuesday -- "You know Dad," 10-year-old Zach is talking with his mouth brimful of cereal, "I think my life has been pretty full.""Really?" I say to my son."Yeah. I mean, think about it. I have actually held a Serval Cat.…
Tuesday -- In Sabbath Moment last week, we used the metaphor of the artist and being tethered to that authenticity given to our childhood. And how life knocks it out of us. How we become untethered from that which grounds…
Tuesday -- I lived in my Vashon island home for about 20 years. And the garden took its time (something about the gardener’s procrastination, just sayin’), which meant that for a few years, behind my house was a large hole.…
Tuesday -- In the Gospel of John, Jesus encounters a man who has been lying on a mat for 38 years--with a physical disability--waiting to be healed. Jesus asks him a simple question, "Do you want to get well?"So. Let’s…
Tuesday -- Every once in a while (and I’m not always sure what triggers it), I give in to my broken places. Meaning I assume that the label of “broken” is the only truth about who I am. And I…
Tuesday -- This week, our invitation is from the movie Mao to Mozart.Isaac Stern stops a young student (playing her violin skillfully), and says with his enigmatic smile, "Okay. Now. Sing the beginning to me.""Don't be afraid," Stern says gently.…
Tuesday -- This week we’re asking; where do we tether our identity for well-being (in a world where many feel lost or adrift)? Because if we cannot find that place, it is easy to stop playing music. To stop caring.…
Tuesday -- It has been a lovely beginning to our week here in Orkney Springs, autumn colors of vermilion, claret and scarlet. And amber and gold. An invitation to the sacrament of the present.To be here now.And the gift of…
