I recently delivered a message at my church about navigating the sometimes choppy waters of the relationship between parents and their adult children - Friends and Family: We're All Grown Up It came out of my ignorance, not my knowledge. It flowed from my failure, not my success. It stemmed from my pain, not my progress. […]

I am reading through the Psalms again, always finding words, phrases, passages, thoughts I have not noticed before. Here is today's finding .... In Psalm 15 where King David asks, "O Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who many dwell on your holy hill?" One of the answer he gives; one of the people […]

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. (Mary Renault, 1905 – 1983)

"I came to understand that God hadn't lost me, even if I seemed for years to have misplaced God." (Kathleen Norris)

As a woman who works in the church, as the mother of three grown adults, and frankly, just as a human being, I have a few words to say about sexual harassment and sexual abuse of power that is rampant in our world: It has been going on since the beginning of time. Ask any […]

 I read this poem this morning (slowly, a few times through) and was so touched by its simply beauty and powerful truth. It is by leaning on another frail human being when we fail that something beautiful and strong can unfold. We are truly better together. Take a breath, take a moment here. Read this […]