Our world lost a bright light today.President Jimmy Carter died peacefully, age 100.In his words, “I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've…
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…
I write this sitting by the fireplace, savoring the dancing flames. The Advent candles are lit, and Silent Night is playing in the background.A settled stillness. And deep breaths for this gift of enough. Smiling about the magical power of…
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…
The young couple stands in the long ticket queue at Knott's Berry Farm. Between the ticket kiosk and the main gate their two young boys—maybe ages five and six—are passing the time, playing, waiting for their parents. Their focus of…
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,…
A great Rabbi died. He had been revered and loved by his congregation. After his death, it was decided that the Rabbi's son, himself a Rabbi, would take his father's place.This pleased the congregation, for the son would be "just…
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…
This morning, on the first Sunday of Advent, I lit a candle in The Porto Cathedral, where my Camino began almost three weeks ago. And began to walk north again, on the Camino route for just the first stage, as…
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,…