More Than a Meal
After getting the awful news that his cousin John, the baptizer, had been killed, Jesus slipped away in a boat to a quiet place to grieve and pray and plan.* Seeing a great multitude make their way to where he was heading, a wave of compassion fell across his bow. Back to his healing work […]
A Life Worth Living – Jan. 20, 2020
“If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. And every now and then I wonder what I want them to say. Tell them not to mention that I […]
response to the ordinary – Dec. 18, 2019
“For most of us the days are not filled with events that we label “important.” The content and quality of our lives is determined by how we respond to the ordinary, and this depend on whether or not we have taken the time to nourish an inner life. The more pressed we are for time […]
Radiant Wholeness
As Lent approaches, I am watching the slow miracle of orchids opening on my windowsill. Fleshy green leaves brush the chilled glass as a third flower opens from the line of buds. Amid other mementos on the sill, deep crimson stipples the white petals and a golden throat opens. Its radiance stuns me awake. Outside, […]
