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…
The sacrament of joy
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…
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,…
At home in my own skin
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…
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…
The gift of hope
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…
Daily Dose (Nov 26 – 29)
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,…
Hiding place for the holy
One of my favorite parts about walking (including a good bit of wandering and roving) the Portuguese Camino, is that I approvingly have no idea where my mind (thoughts or spirit) is heading on any particular day. And consequently, no idea…
Daily Dose (Nov 19 – 22)
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…
Different way to measure
A week ago, while touring the awe-inspiring Porto Cathedral—“born” in the 12th century, and rebuilt and renovated numerous times throughout the centuries, now an elegant mixture of architectural styles—a woman is vacuuming, between and under the pews. The Cathedral is…