Daily Dose (Feb 4 – 7)
TUESDAY FEB 4 -- We are empowered to repair and heal the world where it touches us, the small world—the people—close by, the daily, those ordinary resting places for our heart. “Love is the only way to rescue humanity from…
Daily Dose (Jan 28 – 31)
TUESDAY JAN 28 -- “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)This week we remember and embrace our capacity to light candles… Candles of empathy and compassion and healing and restoration.And today we commemorated International…
Daily Dose (Jan 21 – 24)
TUESDAY JAN 21 -- I can tell you this; I do miss my morning conversations (and yes, homilies) with the sheep on Vashon Island.And I loved their look that asked, “Well, do you have a story today or not?”And today,…
Daily Dose (Jan 14 – 17)
TUESDAY JAN 14 -- Every single one of us hurts and yearns, and longs to be seen and valued.And compassion is alive and well when we give way to the “tender gravity of kindness.” Encounters with no stain of stingy…
Daily Dose (Jan 7 – 10)
TUESDAY JAN 7 -- Our invitation this week: to “become like a child.” The invitation to remember and to reclaim the profound sense of joy, innocence and trust.Like a child, we are present.Like a child, we take delight in the…
Daily Dose (Dec 30 – Jan 2)
This week, making a difference. One gentle step at a time.And for reinforcement and affirmation, we will carry with us the words of President Jimmy Carter, “I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. I'm…
Daily Dose (Dec 24 – 27)
TUESDAY DEC 24 -- In Sabbath Moment yesterday, we told the story of Hope in No Man’s Land, where on Christmas Eve in 1914, during WWI, in a place of mud and cold and bloodshed, something unexpected and extraordinary occurred.A…
Daily Dose (Dec 17 – 20)
TUESDAY DEC 17 -- This week, we are unpacking the four ingredients to being a daily pilgrim. And we begin with the good news: You don’t have to leave home to live like a pilgrim. Ingredient number one, we see…
Daily Dose (Dec 10 – 13)
TUESDAY DEC 10 -- This week, we are talking about reclaiming ourselves, to be (and feel) alive in our own skin.To live wholehearted and unabashed in a skin (a self) that feels, values, honors, esteems, loves, fears, desires, hopes for,…
Daily Dose (Dec 3 – 6)
TUESDAY DEC 3 -- This week, we embrace (and are embraced by), the gift of hope.And it never ceases to amaze me, the power in the temptation to search for (or pursue) what we think we need, or want, in…