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November 2019

November 02, 2019

Why We Should Learn to Love the Color Orange

Once upon a time, I would have insisted I did not like the color...

October 2019

October 19, 2019

Death, Enemies, and Garden Cleanup

How's that for a title? It's October at Maplehurst. Most of the leaves are...

October 12, 2019

A Gardener’s Religion

Is God in the clouds? Somewhere up above the clouds? Most of us live...

September 2019

September 21, 2019

Right Here, Right Now

In the churches of my growing up, I heard admired men from shiny pulpits...

September 07, 2019

The Grace of Unanticipated Routines

When I write about cultivating glory, of course I imagine myself in the role...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

When Building Up Begins with Tearing Down

I am writing this from the front porch at Maplehurst. I am writing this...

August 27, 2019

This Turning World: A Reflection on Hope for Hard Times

Our planet is always turning, always rotating around its center. But there are moments...

August 03, 2019

How to Love the Difficult Months

I should call them the hydrangeas of astonishment. This summer hardly anyone visits us...

July 2019

July 20, 2019

The Most Important Invitation

It's a wonderful thing to step into a place someone else has prepared for you....

July 06, 2019

Summer Religion

I do not love July, but I appreciate its drama. We wake to fog...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

The Peace We Do Not Look For

Around here, summer began with a long-anticipated trip followed by a week of jet-lag....

June 08, 2019

Searching for Glory

I live in the ordinary dull-gray world of sibling squabbles, broken air-conditioners, flower-eating garden...

June 01, 2019

It is Time to Taste and See

It is the first day of June, and I can feel spring rolling into...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Why We Must Cultivate Memory Like Soil

Toward the end of our Memorial Day gathering, I walked with a few friends...

May 21, 2019

The High Price of Living Life in a Hurry

It only lasted a moment but what a moment. And how near I came...

May 14, 2019

Don’t Forget To Gather Your Harvest

Spring is my personal harvest season. The plans I made last summer, the bulbs...

May 07, 2019

Abundant Life Among the Tangled Weeds

May is my favorite month in the garden. The late daffodils and tulips are...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

A Same Old (Never Gets Old) Easter

There are some miracles so regular we can almost forget they are miracles. The...

April 27, 2019

Can You Hear the Song of the Trees?

It felt like winter would last forever, while it lasted. Spring was a mirage...

April 13, 2019

We Aren’t Waiting For Resurrection

We are living it. I feel that more than ever in early spring. Sometimes...

April 09, 2019

Hello, Easter, My Old Friend

There is nothing, nothing, nothing, until, suddenly, there is everything: a haze of green...

April 02, 2019

Practicing New Life in the Cruellest Month

The opening of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is often quoted this time...

March 2019

March 30, 2019

The Practice of Watering Dry Bones

I write these Saturday morning posts ... on Saturday morning. Coffee cup nearby. Cartoon...

March 26, 2019

A Feast in the Desert

We do not always get to choose whether we step into the wilderness or...

March 19, 2019

Pursuing Less This Lent

For too many years in a row, I've tried to observe Lent my own...

March 16, 2019

Don’t Seize the Day (Let the Day Seize You)

I began this "Cultivating Glory" column assuming I would lay out for you (and...

March 12, 2019

Because We Are All Placemakers

That's the claim I make in this book: like the God to whom we...

March 09, 2019

Practicing Spring While It’s Still Winter

The literal meaning of Lent is "springtime," a fact I was reminded of this...

March 05, 2019

Drawing Near to Broken Things (Lent for Placemakers)

Six years ago, we moved into a red brick farmhouse built in 1880 by...

March 02, 2019

Leaning in to the Ache of Waiting

This winter seems to be following the pattern of the previous two: in December...

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