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…
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…
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…
“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…
Tuesday -- This week we’re talking about stillness as a healing sacred space.It’s so necessary because it feels contrary to the messages we get from the world we live in.What’s at stake here—with the sacred necessity of stillness—is not another…
Here in Port Ludlow, we are in day two without power. A Friday night storm rocked the Pacific Northwest. No, not hurricane strength, but with serious enough winds to knock out power for thousands in the region. Big trees down,…
Tuesday -- We live in a world that depletes us.And we need places to rest and renew and to live—to be refueled.I do enjoy the film; A Star is Born. It’s the story of two people (Jackson and Ally) trying…
Every day after school, the young son of a well-known Rabbi would enter his house, place his backpack on the dining room table, leave the house through the back door and head into the woods behind the house.At first, the…
Tuesday -- When life feels uncertain or heavy, what is outside of us can feel threatening, and it is no surprise that we do our best to keep insecurity and distress at bay. So, I spend my days believing that…
There was a farmer who had a lot of fields, and he kept all of the birds and creatures away from his crops with traps and fences. He was very successful.But he was also very lonely.So, one day, he stood…
