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"Fear is mostly wasted imagination." (Amit Sood) Photo by Adam Young on Unsplash
The hard part Is to find yourself at home with where and what you are And still remain amazed. (John Koethe, "Beyond Belief") We live in a trance so much of the time, don't we? Here, but not here. Restless, never really at home. We carry around a vague sense of unhappiness with who we […]
I gotta' be honest today: I feel stuck. Stuck about how to write anything that means anything about what the world feels like right now. Stuck about how honest and vulnerable to be about the things I am pondering these days, the things that are causing me angst, giving me pause, making me reconsider choices. […]
This is my annual Pride Month repost of this message of love ... I don't often make religious claims with absolute certainty. Not my style. But I am gonna' do it right here, right now. After studying the life of Jesus in the Gospels for the last 40 years, I can state with absolute certainty […]
The deep rumble of thunder began about 5:00 this morning. One of life's most delicious sounds if you are tucked in a warm bed and have a few more hours to sleep. Luckily, I did. I woke well past my alarm, stretched, threw some clothes on and headed downstairs to pour myself a cup of […]
It was Easter and I was tasked with creating a children's paraphrase of Luke's telling of the Last Supper. I read the original text so closely: Luke 22:1-20. Most of us adults who have ever set foot in a church know this story. It's the one where Jesus knows he is going to end up […]
There is sometimes a perception that because I have been a pastor for the past 20 years and have been counseling at least as long, that I have my whole life together.
But honestly, that’s not always the case.
I struggle with many of the same things that you do, and that’s one of the reasons I write Alice at Dawn. So that we can tackle those questions together.
