Daily Dose (Mar 12 – 15)
Tuesday -- “You can't get away from a love that won't let you go.” Thank you, Robert Capon.This week we will talk about revitalization and restoration. It is the way we are wired. In our DNA.And as we recognized it,…
Daily Dose (Mar 5 – 8)
Tuesday -- This week, the freedom to choose to care.So, it is story time.Thirteen years ago, I walked across a bridge. The sun shines down from a bleached blue sky. The air may by cool, but our spirits don't notice,…
Daily Dose (Feb 27 – Mar 1)
Tuesday -- Our invitation this week, Sacred Self-care.The permission to literally, pause, to feed, replenish and nourish our soul and spirit.But no, it is not easy. My pedigree is good. Raised in religious environment and trained in religious colleges and…
Daily Dose (Feb 20 – 23)
Tuesday -- This week we are talking about the permission to let go.Every single one of us can be owned or possessed by the “things we carry”, sadly, seeing only what we want to see, and our spirit can be…
Daily Dose (Feb 13 – 16)
Tuesday -- This week: The invitation to be here now.As young clergy, just out of seminary, it was the impulse, attraction and aspiration to provide the “answers” people needed. That would make the difference, I told myself. And I realize…
Daily Dose (Feb 6 – 9)
Tuesday -- This week, we embrace—and are embraced by—the gift of grace.After 30 years of preaching, the Rev. Howard-John Wesley stood in front of his congregation (Alexandria, VA) and admitted: “I am tired in my soul.”“I feel so distant from…
Daily Dose (Jan 29 – Feb 1)
Tuesday -- This week: We know there is power in the gift of enough.Let’s be honest, in today’s din, with much to fret about, that’s not easy to do.Let us begin here... We carry this capacity to honor the sacrament…
Daily Dose (Jan 23 – 26)
Tuesday -- Many years ago, I spend some time in a village in Holland, near the border of Germany. I was there for a two-week writing workshop. And yes, it was life-giving.As friends, each evening, we sat around the river…
Daily Dose (Jan 16 – 19)
Tuesday -- Yes, we are, all of us, builders. We are, all of us, about the business of building places and spaces for human dignity and inclusion, and kindness and compassion, and justice and hope. But some days, it doesn’t…
Daily Dose (Jan 8 – 11)
Tuesday -- The week, the invitation and permission to return to, and be embraced by, the gentle arms and hands of grace.We told the story of a Mary Oliver poem being read to a group of maltreated young Kenyan women,…