On the Way: Resurrection

Easter morning at my church we were encouraged to be attentive in the days and weeks ahead to sightings of the Risen Christ and to then share those experiences with each other, much like what happened with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.* In preparation, I have been pondering what I see in […]

Set Me Ablaze – Aug. 30, 2022

Touching the match to the kindling,it’s tempting to thinkI’m doing this simplyfor the heat and light,that it’s not an ancient ritualborne in my blood,that it’s not a desperate prayer:God set me ablaze. –Jan Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path, p. 5

There is nothing that we can do but love – Apr. 5, 2022

“What we would like to do is change the world — make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe and shelter themselves as God intended them to do… We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever-widening circle will reach around the world. We can give away an […]

To Be Alive – Mar. 29, 2022

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ―Alan Watts, from 1960 lecture “On the Meaning of Life”