Greater things (for Barry)
Sent to our church when I was little, the young pastor remembered me before I remembered him. My first mentor. His apprentice. Helping him lead a retreat in the mountains of North Carolina, which I had done for years, I stood in front of the old wooden altar where I first heard the voice of […]
Away from Home
I fought back tears in the vestibule of a family restaurant just a few blocks from the Catedral Primada in Toledo, Spain. It was so crowded with soaking tourists, the host had stopped adding names to the waitlist. There I was, starving and shivering, realizing that I had six more hours of walking around Toledo […]
Never Alone
This drawing has been in my prayer space for many years. Jesus is as close to the lamb as he can get and the lamb is snuggling in to be even closer. With half-shut eyes, the lamb is sweetly smiling. Perhaps Jesus is, too. Then there is the strong, scarred hand. Jesus’ comforting hand expresses […]
Endless Love
When Jesus tells his followers to love one another,* he is inviting them to practice the endless, unconditional, selfless, sacrificial love in which God enfolds all of creation. Jesus showed us what that looked like for human beings in his day-to-day interactions with the people followed him wherever he went, those who came to him […]