Time Passing – Jan. 17, 2023

“[Ritual] gives you a sense of time passing, which is really helpful when you’re struggling, because time can begin to drag, and you can get mired in hopelessness. You get a kind of marker of your progress, so the next time that something comes up in the calendar, you can feel how far away you […]

Fishing for Delight

When the call went out for writers for this season of Inward/Outward, I was more focused on my very busy schedule than on the assigned Gospel readings for each week. Picking a week when I thought that I would have time and energy to write, I hadn’t even looked at the text until early this […]

The Earth Within – Aug. 17, 2021

Hawvlan lachma d’sunqanan yaomana (KJV: Give us this day our daily bread.)   Grant what we need each day in bread and insight: subsistence for the call of growing life. Give us the food we need to growthrough each new day,through each illumination of life’s needs. Let the measure of our need be earthiness:give all […]

How Much is Enough? – Aug. 16, 2019

“I have said that I don’t know what I should have, and you probably don’t know what you should have. But I think one of the most powerful things we can do for one another is to tell our stories. “This is what I have; this is what I give away; this is what I […]