What Can I Give?
As the door slammed, I froze, seeing my keys locked inside our Volvo. Which was built like a tank. Safe. Secure. Very hard to unlock, because the mechanism was a sliding bolt down near the handle. And I was standing, stunned, in a French parking lot near Avignon with two teenage visitors whom I hardly […]
Endless Opportunities – Nov. 2, 2021
“When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You’re able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you […]
Every Single Moment – Nov. 1, 2021
“There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some vines there, so she climbs down and holds on to the vines. Looking down, she sees that there are tigers […]
How to Love God
The words “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One” have been familiar to me for longer than I can remember. Of course, I tend to remember them better in the original Hebrew that I learned to chant as soon as I could talk, and Jesus seems to have learned a different […]