Daily Dose (Mar 12 – 15)
Tuesday -- “You can't get away from a love that won't let you go.” Thank you, Robert Capon.This week we will talk about revitalization and restoration. It is the way we are wired. In our DNA.And as we recognized it,…
Blessed embrace
It's already long past departure time. I'm standing near the gate, waiting for the inbound passengers to deplane. There's nowhere to go, and the plane will depart when it departs. Even so, the passengers (including me) are beginning to huddle,…
Daily Dose (Mar 5 – 8)
Tuesday -- This week, the freedom to choose to care.So, it is story time.Thirteen years ago, I walked across a bridge. The sun shines down from a bleached blue sky. The air may by cool, but our spirits don't notice,…
Freedom to choose to care
The Sunday-school teacher asked her 10-year-old students if they would be willing to give $1,000,000 to missionary work for children and families in need."Yes," they all screamed in unison."Very good. Would you give $1000?""Yes!""Good. Would you give $1?"The class responded,…
Daily Dose (Feb 27 – Mar 1)
Tuesday -- Our invitation this week, Sacred Self-care.The permission to literally, pause, to feed, replenish and nourish our soul and spirit.But no, it is not easy. My pedigree is good. Raised in religious environment and trained in religious colleges and…
Healing power of sanctuary
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. Including yourself. (Thank you, Anne Lamott.) And this did my heart good. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, (professor of practical theology and pastoral care at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia),…
Daily Dose (Feb 20 – 23)
Tuesday -- This week we are talking about the permission to let go.Every single one of us can be owned or possessed by the “things we carry”, sadly, seeing only what we want to see, and our spirit can be…
Permission to let go
I just finished a weekend in Anaheim, CA at the Religious Education Congress. Hugs from a few thousand of my closest friends. And I talked about the permission to slow down long enough to savor the moment. But that’s not…
Daily Dose (Feb 13 – 16)
Tuesday -- This week: The invitation to be here now.As young clergy, just out of seminary, it was the impulse, attraction and aspiration to provide the “answers” people needed. That would make the difference, I told myself. And I realize…
Invitation to be here now
Uncertainty doesn’t feel like a fun thing. And we like to think we’d recognize the stuff that may unravel us, but are routinely surprised. So, it is no shock that we yearn for more certainty, you know, to enable us…
