Tuesday -- A young couple moved into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the washing outside."That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly.…
Tommy was his parent's pride and joy. A very bright, creative and contented little boy, he began kindergarten with his parent's certainty that he would flourish. At the end of the first week, Tommy brought home pictures he had colored.…
“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve,” Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us. “You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart…
On one day in 2013, I walked across a bridge. The sun shone down from a bleached blue sky. The air was cool, but our spirits don't notice, as we stand and sing under the sign, Edmund Pettus Bridge. We…
Tuesday -- This week... what I know for certain is that starting down that path of determining “right or wrong” life, assures the fact that we will avoid (and definitely miss) this life.So. My new year resolution is an invitation;…
I confess that I haven’t gotten around to making any new year resolutions. I was reminded this morning in a marketing email, “Terry, What are you aiming for in 2023? What does success look like?”I have nothing against lists, per…
Tuesday -- This week we’re talking about Lagniappe ("lan-yap"). (It is an old Creole word that means “something extra”.)It is the permission to receive—to be embrace by—the gift of grace.The gift of sufficiency (over and against scarcity).It’s important to pause…
In the town of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, there is a church named Lagniappe ("lan-yap"). It is an old Creole word that means “something extra”.Pastor Jean Larroux explains, "Down here if you go into a seafood shop and order a…
Tuesday -- This week, we ask the question, "Instead of finishing the year strong, can we embrace the gift of finishing the year soft?" Rested and at home in our own skin. You know... Open to gratitude, and compassion, and…
“Do you want a part in the Christmas nativity play?” James’ grade schoolteacher asked him.“Of course,” he answered."You get to be Joseph," the teacher told him.James was proud, what with his friends having to be sheep and cows and such.…
