Beloved Is Where We Begin – Mar. 10, 2023

“If you would enterinto the wilderness,do not beginwithout a blessing. Do not leavewithout hearingwho you are:Beloved,named by the Onewho has traveled this pathbefore you. Do not gowithout letting it echoin your ears,and if you findit is hardto let into your heart,do not despair.That is whatthis journey is for. …” –Jan Richardson, excerpt from “Beloved Is […]

Lost – Feb. 13, 2023

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside youAre not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,Must ask permission to know it and be known.The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,I have made this place around you.If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.No two trees are the same […]

The Doldrums – Jan. 25, 2023

“To handle the doldrums, we need to go with our core longing. We need to will ourselves past career management into deeper territory. Callings start where careers leave off.” –John P. Schuster, Answering Your Call, p. 45

Rules for the Journey

Jesus appoints a group of 72 to go ahead of him. They will test the waters, see where the welcome waits and where it does not. More importantly, they will leave the secure camaraderie of their tight circle and venture forth, two by two, into God’s wide world of blessed and bewildered people. To prepare […]