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October 2014

October 31, 2014

Invitations on the Journey: Walk with the Saints

Travel in northern New Mexico is a walk with the saints that are so familiar...

May 2014

May 05, 2014

A Bouquet of Blessings for Patheos@5!

To be a blogger at all is a huge surprise in my life; it had...

April 2014

April 01, 2014

Revisiting GracePlaces: Loving my Neighbors-Lent IV

The house next door is vacant. I confess that I am glad. The neighbor who...

February 2014

February 23, 2014

The True Course of Long Love

I have just returned from an annual retreat with women who have been convening to...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Soul Friend

Today I join with those who remember St. Brigid of Kildare on her feast day....

January 18, 2014

How Can I Keep From Singing?

The week has been full of stories of grief and sadness. The conversations have teemed...

December 2013

December 28, 2013

Christmas For All

Christmas Eve children's services are baffling and challenging for pastors--the question is how to make...

October 2013

October 13, 2013

Hurts and Slights

It happens in the gathering of the faithful episodically, but regularly enough to have to...

September 2013

September 13, 2013

Atchison Blue: A Book Review

The quest for a place of Spirit and a community of sacred conversation is a...

September 03, 2013

How the Light Gets In

My "summer" ended with my reading the long-awaited publication of the Louise Penny mystery, How...

July 2013

July 06, 2013

Talking the Talk

A gift of summer that comes to me is leisurely time for sacred conversation. In...

February 2013

February 12, 2013

Traveling Companions

Tomorrow we begin a Lenten journey. Following a model of Jesus and a tradition of...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Hoping While Weeping–Advent IV

Within hours after I posted my last entry with a call to sing and rejoice,...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

In Gratitude for Women who Run WithThe Spirit

I am very grateful for so many thing this season, and right at the top...

November 04, 2012

A Saint Unknown for All Saints Sunday

We could not travel far in Ireland without running into signs, locations, references to the...

August 2012

August 24, 2012

Choosing a Life Story

I sat with a companion this week to say farewell to the journey of five...

June 2012

June 15, 2012

Forgiving Collateral Damage-III

(Continued from the last two posts) So for the person of faith, after the damage...

June 08, 2012

Collateral Damage II

I am finding it hard to be writing about the collateral pain that occurs when...

March 2012

March 15, 2012

A Love Walk–Week 4 of Lent

I have walked half my way through Lent. The words from the King James Version...

February 2012

February 18, 2012

On Opening the Door

We arrived at the retreat house mid-afternoon on a sunny, but blustery, day. We had...

February 06, 2012

On Boundaries

I have been flummoxed and baffled about the question of boundaries in a community of...

December 2011

December 13, 2011

With Two or Three

This year for the first time in a long while, I am observing Advent and...

November 2011

November 16, 2011

All the Lonely People

It's a big city in which I live, in a big nation, in a big...

October 2011

October 08, 2011

Keeping Faith

Sometimes life just delivers a blow that knocks one out. Your breath is taken away,...

July 2011

July 16, 2011

Blog Body and Spirit Sinew

I am a slow receptor in the worlds of social media and rapid technological evolution....

July 10, 2011

Hills of Difficulty

The figure of a pilgrim has always been intriguing to me since I heard a...

July 04, 2011

Freedom for Interdependence

Here in the United States, we hear a great deal of talk about independence and...