I’m asked today by the good people at #Reverb10 to consider the friendship that has changed me or my perspective on the world this year.  I don’t think that there is one friend though I did highlight Teri in my… Continue reading

When I read the prompt from #Reverb10 this morning on my Blackberry, I whispered the answer before even thinking.  There’s only one answer to this question.  What is one things I appreciate about this year?  What is the one thing… Continue reading

This is the week that we move into the story of birth.  In the Christian calendar, before the waiting is really done, the fourth week of Advent crescendos with the story of Jesus’ birth.  Ready or not. I’ve been thinking… Continue reading

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