Daily Dose (September 8 – 11)
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8 -- This week, we are embracing and being embraced by, the gift of Mercy and Grace.We told the story from Luke's Gospel, about a “bent woman.” We don't know her name. Just the label that has been…
You are home
“Home is where you hear love within the stillness.” Thank you, Raquel Franco.In Luke's Gospel, there is a life-giving story about a “bent woman.” We don't know her name. Just the label that has been given to her. A label…
Daily Dose (September 1 – 4)
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 -- “What is Real?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and…
Take my hand
There’s an old story of a child walking in a forest, surrounded by sun-dappled oak trees. He climbs through the brambles and plays in the fallen leaves, mesmerized by spiderwebs, and mossy rocks, until the moment he realizes he’s completely…
Daily Dose (August 25 – 28)
TUESDAY AUGUST 25 -- I can tell you that it is easy to write—and preach—a homily on kindness.Practicing kindness, well, that is another thing altogether.This I know with deep gratitude: One of the gifts we can give one another is…
It begins with us
In June 1859, Jean-François Gravelet (known as The Great Blondin) crossed Niagara Falls walking a tight rope. During his life, he repeated the feat several times, always with a different theatrical variation: blindfolded, in a sack, trundling a wheelbarrow, on…
Daily Dose (August 18 – 21)
TUESDAY AUGUST 18 -- Children—or, let us say, the child within us—remind us of what it means to be “tethered” to authenticity.Did you see the movie “Shine”?In the opening scenes, we first meet the middle-aged David Helfgott (played by acclaimed…
Put on, wear Love
A Nigerian woman, a physician at a teaching hospital in the United States, attended a Gordon MacDonald lecture. After, she approached Gordon, to offer kind words of affirmation. She introduced herself using an American name.“If I may ask,” Gordon inquired,…
Daily Dose (August 11 – 14)
TUESDAY AUGUST 11 -- “We live like ill-taught piano students. We are so afraid of the flub that will get us in dutch, we don't hear the music, we only play the right notes.” Thank you, Robert Capon.And in yesterday’s…
Power to say yes
New to both the town, and the church, Ellen wanted to be involved, to give of herself, to share her gifts. As it happened, the parish needed a new tapestry for one of the smaller chapels.And as a seamstress, Ellen…