A Six-Word-Statement

A Six-Word-Statement

Last week’s blog challenged us to work on a six month plan. How are you doing with that? If you haven’t started, begin. If you started and stopped, begin again. If you wrote your plan and are applying it, good for you. Continue.  Today we’ll stay with the number...
The Next Six Months

The Next Six Months

Before Thanksgiving I read the final assignment from my spiritual formation students. They wrote six month strategic plans for their own spiritual growth and development.  Each one was unique. That’s why I don’t offer a set model for them to follow. I gave general...
Forty Years

Forty Years

Dear Mama,Today is the anniversary of your death. We have traveled through four decades on life’s ocean without you. We’ve wished you were sailing with us—noticing the scenes of wonder, smiling in awe, enduring the fierce storms, keeping us calm, listening to the...
seeing

seeing

From a slow and sudden God: 40 years of wonder. the passive entertainment of the bigness of our efforts confuses even hopes we once possessed. a precisely timed maneuver matches all the counter-punches to proclaim we really are what we professed. there is no truth in...