Actually Creating – May 25, 2023

“We do not experience ourselves as gift until we are engaged in the act of creating. The confirmation of a person as gift acknowledges what is obvious, but it does not give enough attention to what is not as evident—the unknown potential in a person that can be brought into existence only through the exercising […]

Be Complete – Feb. 9, 2023

“The imagery of inviting all parts of ourselves home, back to the table like the prodigal son, lies at the heart of the Aramaic sense of what it means to be perfect.” –Neil Douglas-Klotz, The Hidden Gospel, p. 129 

The Presence of God Was There – Feb. 3, 2023

“And what I began discovering is that every time I allowed myself to feel at a loss in the face of the pain I witnessed, every time I touched my own irrelevance, there was this energy of God that would emerge in our midst. All I had to do was say yes to it. The […]

A Call for Me?

My dad was, in his own words, “just a country doctor with a sniff and sneeze practice.” It was his way of downplaying the extraordinary effort that it had taken him to work his way through medical school during the Depression because he wanted to help people. I also knew that he felt called to […]