Good Intentions
The older I get, the more I notice how often I fail to live up to my commitments, how often I say that I will do one thing and end up doing something quite different, how often I am unwilling or unable to make good on my promises to myself as well as to others. […]
Purpose and Possibility
To threaten the order of things, pushing against how they’ve always been, is dangerous business. The enlightened ones, not trapped by chronological time or societal expectations, grow beyond the boundaries of how equality has been defined from age to age. Throughout all time, one’s culturally focused fairness lens is largely accepted as gospel. Yet this […]
The Accounting of Forgiveness
“How many times do I need to forgive my brother or sister?” That’s the question which prompts the parable of the unmerciful servant.* Peter, like me, would like a limit on forgiveness, perhaps somewhere around the number of items you can take through the grocery store express line. Well, Jesus does throw out numbers in […]
Growing Together
When it comes to our places of belonging, whether they are family or friendships or spiritual communities, inevitably we communicate badly or offend or hurt each other, either intentionally or unconsciously. We are people. Precious and flawed. Each born and grown differently, formed by our personalities and a history of relations, social context, and life […]