Tuesday -- “They serve one another. And they protect one another,” the little boy noticed on a world-hopping trip visiting "underprivileged" countries (where his father had the firm purpose of showing his son, how “poor people” live).The father wasn’t imagining…
Tuesday -- The anthropologist invited the children from the African tribe to play one game. He placed a basket of fruit near the tree and announced, addressing the children: "The one of you who reaches the tree first will be…
Tuesday -- This week, we remember, compassion is real.And I say (yes, often in homilies), “Compassion matters. And our world needs it.”This is easy to say (or preach), but I confess that more often than not, I see (focus only…
Tuesday -- A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still, they plagued him.Finally, he wrote the department of agriculture.…
Tuesday -- This week, the gifts of Grace and Gratitude.And it bears repeating, grace is not something you add to your life. Like a creedal quiz response, “I believe in grace.” Check.Which is all well and good... however, grace happens when…
Tuesday -- This week, we are invited to absorb daily miracles. The permission to honor listening, or attention (seeing) without judgment. And I love this: when we pay attention (“Wow. Did you see that?”), we create a fabric in our…
Tuesday -- This week we are asking, where does hope live? And, when the world feels upside down--when our spirit feels fractured or frightened or empty--where do we go?As we honor the memory of 9/11, and the lives lost, and…
Tuesday -- This week we are taking Jimmy Buffett’s lyrics to heart...“And there's that one particular harbourSheltered from the windWhere the children play on the shore each dayAnd all are safe within” We need to remember and be embraced by…
Tuesday -- This week we’re talking about stillness as a healing sacred space.It’s so necessary because it feels contrary to the messages we get from the world we live in.What’s at stake here—with the sacred necessity of stillness—is not another…
Tuesday -- We live in a world that depletes us.And we need places to rest and renew and to live—to be refueled.I do enjoy the film; A Star is Born. It’s the story of two people (Jackson and Ally) trying…