I have moved on to Krista Tippett's second "Foundations" podcast episode, which is a mere 8 minutes long this time. These four short podcasts are Tippett's re-launching of her On Being podcast and they are stunningly rich and beautifully simple. Each one leaves me with more to think about than my aging brain can take […]
Author, psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach said: "Attention is the greatest form of love." Ponder this with me: In our attention economy where bots and algorithms and marketers and everyone and their brother is trying to capture our attention, what does it mean that attention is the greatest form of love? Who do you […]
I hope you will let these wise words of Henri Nouwen wash over you today: Our life is a short time in expectation, a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. There is a quality of sadness that pervades all the moments of our lives. It seems there is no […]
I love the newsletter The Marginalian by Maria Popova. It's brilliant and so well curated it is almost as if you read an entire life-altering book (or two!) when you immerse yourself in her musings. She wrote this recently and I cannot stop thinking about it: "You are the only custodian of your own integrity […]
As I said before in this post, I don't often pontificate on things I know for sure about God. Too big of a risk I will be incredibly wrong. However, there are a few things I can boldly say I know for sure. Here is one: Never buy a Bible from a politician. The motivation […]
"Prayer is language used in personal relation to God. It gives utterance to what we sense or want or respond to before God. God speaks to us; our answers are our prayers. The answers are not always articulate: silence, sighs, groaning -- these also constitute responses. The answers are not always positive: anger, skepticism, curses […]
