Tuesday -- Healing our broken world. Finding and seeing connection even in the midst of pain. We begin with a paradigm shift: it’s not about comparison or performance or competition. Instead, the invitation to see that wholeheartedness and healing flows even from…
Always try to leave people better than you found them. Hug the hurt. Kiss the broken. Befriend the lost. Love the lonely.I want to live in that kind of world.But this is my confession: some days (well, too many days),…
Tuesday -- “We teach children how to measure, how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense the wonder and awe.” Thank you Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.Rediscovering wonder takes root in the soil of the…
Sometimes air travel feels like a microcosm of our world’s heaviness and uncertainty. In other words, a place where we wonder what possibly may go awry.When I used to fly frequently, I remember times, let’s say, “on edge.”There’s a chunk…
Tuesday -- “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard ThurmanWhat makes you come alive? The question itself, is a…
On this holiday weekend, many of our fellow citizens are hurting, and don’t feel at all united. And as they look ahead, they don’t feel hopeful.I know when I try to make sense of this weight, I can feel powerless,…
Tuesday -- This week we are remembering, and taking to heart, “It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.” Irish Proverb (“ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine”)But this is never easy, because we don’t…
Dear God, in a world filled with ceaseless motion, help me to find and practice balance. Give me the strength to not put on blinders to all that is hurtful and wrong in the world. Instead, let me make a…
Tuesday -- This week, how do we make a difference?It helps to remember than our work (labor, paid or volunteer) is our turf of responsibility, but that is only a part of our DNA. Because no matter where we labor…
The geese don’t celebrate Father’s Day, but that didn’t stop me from telling them a story about my Dad. It’s a story I’ve told a few times over the years. (An occupational hazard for we clergy; every good story we…
