What kind of leader do I want to be? This isn’t the question that #Reverb10 asks today.  Instead, their question is more toward that point in the past year when my body and soul felt united.  They’re interested in that… Continue reading

In today’s question from #Reverb10, I’m aware that the word wisdom means something quite different to me.  This year, I’ve been even more aware of the possibility of divine wisdom.  I don’t rely on my wise decisions.  I even struggle… Continue reading

This summer, I made the long journey to France (and it was one of those travel adventures that you only pray you’ll survive) to attend my friend Julie’s wedding.  Julie was marrying Antoine.  She married him in French.  I didn’t… Continue reading

I’m feeling like I can’t be witty and engaging every day — and now, well, now it seems like my various sources of inspiration are ganging up on me.  I think that my online journey this Advent and the good… Continue reading

This word prompted by the good people at #Reverb10 is something I talk about a lot. I believe in community.  It is the greatest commandment — the very one that we mark and honor on every Holy Thursday as followers of… Continue reading

“The handcrafted life is very much like this. It takes a lifetime to accomplish. It emerges from a small and infinitely exquisite piecing together of one’s inner and outer lives, these being crafted, played, woven together every day, every week, every month, come… Continue reading

The prompt from #Reverb10 today is to explore that thing or that person that you have let go of this year. I don’t really want to answer this question.  I don’t want it to appear in black and white because it’s… Continue reading

I finished the prayer that has had its home on my easel for a long time now.  It’s hanging now.  Piled among the other prayers I’ve painted.  And now, a new blank page waits upon my easel.  I keep wandering… Continue reading

Photo by David Paul Ohmer. I’ve been thinking about thresholds today.  It was a prompt from my online journey this Advent inspired by this poem from Octavio Paz.  I’ve been wondering what doors will open and what passageways I want… Continue reading

On Monday night, I invited a small group of church members to let go of language.  I asked them to pray in color, but I didn’t ask them to do this in any particular way.  I invited them to find… Continue reading