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…
Daily Dose (Nov 8 – 11)
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…
The Pleasure of Slowness
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,…
Daily Dose (Nov 1 – 4)
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…
