Featured: One thing I know ...
I posted this a year ago ... posting again because, well, politicians. I don't often make religious claims with absolute certainty. Not my style. But I am gonna' do it right here, right now. After studying the life of Jesus in the Gospels for the last 40 years, I can state with absolute certainty that […]
"The despair from comparing ourselves with others is the original fake news." (Mark Rice-Oxley - The Guardian)
"We can all be reached all the time. There never needs to be any silence or solitude in our lives. And so we end up as good people, but as people who are not very deep: not bad, just busy; not immoral, just distracted; not lacking in soul, just preoccupied; not disdaining depth, just never […]
"These days when I lecture, I say that the two most radical things we can do in America are slow down and talk to people." (Mary Pipher, The Shelter of Each Other)
The practice of "nonjudgmental presence" explained beautifully here by Henri Nouwen has changed our family dynamic more than almost any other practice. Parents of adult children ... it is no longer our job to "fix" our children (it never was) ... It is no longer our job to tell our children how to live (it […]
I am hard on myself during the holidays. I am certain there are a multitude of reasons: stress, lots of "togetherness," the internal and external pressure to pull it all off, cooking, cleaning, shopping ... So this morning before my family starts to gather I sat quietly in God's presence and asked for wisdom. This […]
