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…
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…
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,…
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…
TUESDAY NOV 26 -- On my Camino walk, I’ve been carrying Howard Thurman’s reminder, “There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathlessly beautiful.”And yes,…
TUESDAY NOV 19 -- Walking gives your mind time and space.To wander and mull and ponder.And evaluate, and then re-evaluate.I’m walking, but gratefully my heart and spirit are “walking” too. That's the gift of a pilgrimage. It invites (and allows) us to…
TUESDAY NOV 12 -- 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…
TUESDAY NOV 5 -- Sometimes it is easy to forget that every single one of us can make a difference in our world.And the choices we do make, do matter.As the farmer told his neighbor, "Well, that may be true…
TUESDAY OCT 29 -- This week we remember the little girl who gave her father a gift, which he assumed was an empty box. And remembering her words, looking up at her father, with tears on her face, "But Daddy,…
TUESDAY OCT 22 -- This week, we are learning to practice Rabbi Eizik’s wisdom, that “the place where this treasure can be found is the place on which one stands.” (Martin Buber)That all sounds well and good, but sometimes where…
TUESDAY OCT 15 -- This week: what do we do when we feel threatened (undone) by uncertainty?When we feel undefended and vulnerable?When, like the farmer, we put our arms up to welcome the animals into our world, only to be…