I read this from Thomas Merton today and it hit home: "The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many […]

How do you walk with someone experiencing the very deepest kind of grief? We are so 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 […]

"The hope of the whole world rests on the shoulders of a homeless man." (lyrics from Rich Mullins' song about Jesus called "You Did Not Have a Home")

What do you do when you are weary? I think this is an important question to know the answer to. And the answer will be different for each one of us. That is why I like it; there is no "right" answer, there is only your answer. I have learned my way into my answer: […]

Seems right, as summer begins, to ponder a bit of writing from Henry David Thoreau: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that […]

"It's not for me to judge the gifts I have to offer the world, but it is up to me to summon the courage to offer them. There are as may ways to be of use and to express our love as there are people on this earth. Some save lives in emergency rooms while […]