Daily Dose (Dec 13 – 16)
Tuesday -- This week we’re invited to let go of the cravings (or wish) for whatever we’re sure we don’t have, but are sure that we need for life to be okay (well, tidy, at least).Here’s my list: My need…
At home in our own skin
One day the Buddha was sitting with his monks. A distraught farmer approached. "Monks, have you seen my cows?"The Buddha said, "No we have not."The farmer continued, "I am distraught. I have only twelve cows, and now they are gone.…
Daily Dose (Dec 6 – 9)
Tuesday -- Contentment is not about changing, or needing power, it is about being alive and well in our own skin.That’s not easy when we see only the “labels”, reminding us that some part of us unsightly, unrefined, or broken.…
Let us pause, and be grateful
Once upon a time there lived a lowly stone cutter. A less than content lowly stone cutter. He was certain his life would be better if, well, if it were different than the life he had now. Although he was…
Daily Dose (Nov 29 – Dec 2)
Tuesday -- This week the invitation and the permission to unplug.Which for me means fessing up to the odd satisfaction I get from the rush. And yes, even the stress. And the mental gymnastics; if I stop, if I slow…
The permission to unplug
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. Including yourself. (Thank you Anne Lamott.)And yet. We can’t just unplug, can we? Don’t we need a plan of action, a strategy for self-improvement, and targets to…
Daily Dose. (Nov 22 – 25)
Gratitude helps us (allows, encourages, enables us) to see the sufficiency in the present. To embrace the gift of enough.No, this is not always easy. And pain is very real. But instead of looking at what is “missing” or waiting…
The gift of gratitude
A beggar sits on a box, just outside the gates of a city. The beggar cannot work and subsists on the charity of passersby. On this day, the beggar receives no handouts. Finally, one person stops, but to the disquiet…
Daily Dose. (Nov 15 – 18)
This week, we are asking, “What makes you come alive?”Our invitation to pause, to notice, to pay attention, to savor and take delight. And we take that into our work and our play and our rest.Let us use Mary Oliver’s…
Kind hearts come alive
“I wish I read your Sabbath Moment before my meeting,” my friend, a hospice chaplain, tells me. “I was just with my hospice supervisor. Her question to me, ‘What are your long term goals?’”“I wanted to laugh out loud,” she…
