Daily Dose (April 21 – 24)
TUESDAY APRIL 21 -- There are two places we need to go often.A place that heals you.And a place that inspires you.Both places embrace the permission (the invitation) to show up. To this life. To this day. To be here…
Daily Dose (April 14 – 17)
TUESDAY APRIL 14 -- These days, I am often asked about “suggestions” for sanity and healing and reparation. My answer “Today, let goosebumps astonish us”.Goosebumps—making space for the softening in our chest whenever we see beauty or kindness or humanity.This…
Daily Dose (April 7 – 10)
TUESDAY APRIL 7 -- Rich is not about what we possess. Or own.In our culture, we’ve turned wealth into a way to objectify stuff and people and relationships, predicated on having, possessing and preening.So. Here’s our paradigm shift: Rich is…
Daily Dose (March 31 – April 3)
TUESDAY MARCH 31 -- The Sunday-school teacher asked her 10-year-old students if they would be willing to give $1,000,000 to missionary work for children and families in need."Yes," they all screamed in unison."Very good. Would you give $1000?""Yes!""Good. Would you…
Daily Dose (March 24 – 27)
TUESDAY MARCH 24 -- An elderly carpenter is eager to retire. He tells his employer (a very well-respected contractor) of his plans to leave the house-building business. He wishes to live a more leisurely life with his wife and extended…
Daily Dose (March 17 – 20)
TUESDAY MARCH 17 -- Somewhere along the way, something gums up the system. In everyone’s life, during the low points, our inner fire goes out. In my case, more than once.And you still want me to treasure the sacrament of…
Daily Dose (March 10 – 13)
TUESDAY MARCH 10 -- My friend Tim Hansel wrote a book on parenting. He asked his young sons, "Boys, how do you know Dad loves you?"He figured that they would say, "Daaaad, remember when you took us to Disney world,…
Daily Dose (March 3 – 6)
TUESDAY MARCH 3 -- I read an NPR story about how Stephanie Disney (audiologist at the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs) met her (then 2-and-a-half-year-old) daughter, Rudy.Disney recalls, "my heart recognized her immediately."In the story, Disney says,…
Daily Dose (February 24 – 27)
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24 -- It does my heart good when people stand up and say, “We get to say how the story ends.”Which means that even in the darkness, we can be a place of light.Let us never forget that…
Daily Dose (February 17 – 20)
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17 -- Caring for others is music worth singing. It is the music of Grace. It is the music that brings people out of hiding, out of unease, and out of fear.Songs that invite courage, and renewal, and…