Tuesday -- This week, we’re talking about the invitation to wake up. And Advent is "awakened waiting," which involves being roused, being shaken up. You see, Emmanuel, God-with-us, gets it. Everything human and the permission to live awake.And how if…
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. The store is run by Mr. Edward Magorium (who claims that he is two-hundred-forty-three years old), assisted by an insecure Molly Mahoney, and a…
Tuesday -- "You know Dad," 10-year-old Zach is talking with his mouth brimful of cereal, "I think my life has been pretty full.""Really?" I say to my son."Yeah. I mean, think about it. I have actually held a Serval Cat.…
I spent the weekend leading a retreat at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. A sanctuary in the desert. The retreat theme: Spiritual Hydration and the Gift of Enough. This is the kind of subject that entices you with optimism only to give…
Tuesday -- In Sabbath Moment last week, we used the metaphor of the artist and being tethered to that authenticity given to our childhood. And how life knocks it out of us. How we become untethered from that which grounds…
On my walk this morning, a conversation with the geese. We stand on a hoarfrost landscape, our temperature here just a wee bit above freezing. I’m sporting my stocking hat and scarf, but the geese seemed unfazed.“I have a new…
Tuesday -- I lived in my Vashon island home for about 20 years. And the garden took its time (something about the gardener’s procrastination, just sayin’), which meant that for a few years, behind my house was a large hole.…
Gene Logsdon's father-in-law had tried his hand at making bootleg whiskey on his Kentucky farm. He washed the leftover runny mash down a sinkhole, thereby destroying the evidence. Or so he thought. One evening at milking time, the cows came…
Tuesday -- In the Gospel of John, Jesus encounters a man who has been lying on a mat for 38 years--with a physical disability--waiting to be healed. Jesus asks him a simple question, "Do you want to get well?"So. Let’s…
There are moments in our lives that can change everything. For Chris Orwig, it happened in a tent, at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California. A bachelor party; and he was camping with a group of…
