Sacred space is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. […]

One of the main reasons that many of us refuse to get involved with hurting people is that we believe we need to fix them. And we know we can’t. A friend whose child has cancer… A friend whose spouse walks out… A stranger in need… We know we do not have an easy answer […]

Mark Buchanan is one of my favorite writers and thinkers. He is a pastor from Canada and often writes brilliant one-liners that say more than an entire paragraph! Here is one I've been pondering this entire summer: "Endless busyness is earwax against God's voice and a blindfold to God's presence." So many of us wonder […]

It is my favorite time of the summer. Work has not yet picked up to full speed. My adult kids are not here using our house as home base as they transition from place to place. My soul is settled. My heart is quiet. My breathing is deeper, slower. I could sit for hours on […]

Have you noticed how quickly conversations can turn? One person shares a thought, experience, emotion, or difficulty with another person … and that other person, rather than asking a question or digging more deeply into the first person's issue, simply turns the conversation to himself: "I know just how you feel …" "I once had […]

How do you walk with someone experiencing the very deepest kind of grief? We are often tempted to think we need to say something … something deep, something that will comfort, will heal … something profoundly spiritual. But what if the most important thing we can do is to simply show up, and be still? […]