Tuesday -- “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Thank you, Thornton Wilder.Even still, we ask, “What does that look like?” Hoping for the map, or instructions, or…
Tuesday -- This week, we are on the lookout for small wonders (not a bad way to spend the day) embracing this new currency in our lives. Yes, embracing the sacrament of this present moment.And yes, when life’s distractions keep…
Tuesday -- Another day carrying my script and list. And my travels today ignored the script (which travel can easily do). My early flight from Paris to London was cancelled this morning. So, missing my connecting flight, my itinerary was…
Tuesday -- This week we're letting our souls catch up with our bodies. Asking the question "What holds you?" In other words... “What sustains you, and carries you gently through your days?” I know that some people take exception to…
Tuesday -- This week we’ll be talking about seeing the “gifts in the present”. And I’m smiling as I type this, because seeing the gifts is not always an easy thing to do. Sometimes, quite the opposite. Like last night,…
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. …
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
