Recently, I had a period of time where I needed my friends, more than usual. Here is a little tribute to them from some reading I did this weekend: "Friendship is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another's eyes, but can be sustained over […]

"God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction." (Meister Eckhart) Time has a way of adding things to our lives. Literal things; objects, but also commitments, obligations, appointments, activitites, responsibilities ... added and added til our lives are over-full, stuffed to the gills, crowded ... My living […]

Don't Worry Things take the time they take. Don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine? (Mary Oliver)

I have sometimes ruined Christmas. And I did so mostly by having very high expectations ... of myself, of others, and of "the moment." I had a vision of how I wanted things to go, a very unrealistic vision, but a vision nonethless. And that unrealism  was what ruined the real. It is only when […]

So many people I know are taking care of others right now. Helping grown children launch, caring for hurting neighbors, walking alongside those suffering deeply, watching parents age, listening to people carrying the heavy weight of depression, or anxiety, or grief. It is beautiful to me how God uses people to help other people have […]

"Come then ... let us be resigned to our frailty and dependence on God, who would never reduce us to  being unable to walk on our own feet if he had not the mercy to carry us in his arms." (Jean-Pierre de Caussade)