Savoring Blessedness – Sept. 27, 2022
“Consider the memorable tables of your life: kitchen table, dining table, bedside, boardroom, and communion table. Shapes and purposes vary, but these are the tables around which family, friends, colleagues, adversaries have sat with you… Now is the time to bring the gifts of your life to the table: to remember, retrieve, and savor your […]
Embracing Sorrow – Sept. 26, 2022
“Yes, there are ruins in everyone’s life, and no one is immune from feelings of having to settle for some kind of second class. But finally it is a kind of comfort and relief to know that we are ordinary people in the human family–uncommon common people especially loved by God. After a time of […]
Left Behind
We said good-bye to the Queen of England this past week, with all the pomp and pageantry that England could offer. I was surprised to be up early in front of the TV because I haven’t been a fan of “the royals.” I do remember making a scrapbook of pictures cut from Life magazine when she became […]
Clearing Space
Whenever I am disappointed, whether it’s with a friend, an event or how a day has turned out, I ask myself, “What were you expecting? And why?” Because that’s usually the source of my disappointment: somehow reality didn’t match my picture of how it “ought” to be. My narrow self-identity has walled me off from […]
