A Six-Word-Statement

A Six-Word-Statement

by | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog

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

by | Jan 2, 2020 | Blog

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

by | Dec 27, 2019 | Blog

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

by | Dec 21, 2019 | Blog, Book Excerpts

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...
inside matters

inside matters

by | Dec 12, 2019 | Blog, Book Excerpts

This poem has been published in Unwrapping His Presence: What We Really Need for Christmas and a slow and sudden God: 40 years of wonder.  the paper protected the present.  it also presented the gift  as something it wasn’t.  colors, images.  a cover, a mask.  though...
christmas

christmas

by | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog, Book Excerpts

This poem has been published in Unwrapping His Presence: What We Really Need for Christmas and a slow and sudden God: 40 years of wonder. i am an infant,  crawling around on the floor.  staring up at the stairway,  i long to rise;  stand, walk,...
Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks

by | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog

Yes, much needs to change. Yes, we live with disappointments and struggles and grief and disagreements. Yes, the politics can disturb us. Yes, the lack of deep, honest relationships in our performance culture can concerns us. But look around. There is so much good....