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March 2017

March 07, 2017

Riven Things

every riven thing I have returned with renewed gratitude over these past few months to...

March 06, 2017

Bright Wings

like birds hovering I began with a bit from Isaiah a couple of days ago,...

March 05, 2017

Broader than the Measures of the Mind

broader than the measures of the mind I find these words arresting every time I...

March 04, 2017

Repent, Rest, Renew, Repeat

repentance and rest I was surprised recently to come upon a line in Isaiah that...

March 03, 2017

Staying Awake

Watch and pray Matt. 26:41 This little phrase is literally a wake-up call. Jesus says...

March 02, 2017

Remember that you are dust . . .

Remember that you are dust . . . Yes, but it’s stardust. “We are all...

March 01, 2017

Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the 40 Days of Lent

This piece is the first of what I hope will be daily reflections for the...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Live Lovingly

Anne Sexton once wrote of a child, “Love grew around her like crabgrass.” It’s one...

December 23, 2016

Live Wisely

The way of the wise person, Lao Tzu taught, is the way of water. One...

December 22, 2016

Live Repentantly

If the notion of living repentantly suggests chronic guilt or obsessive self-flagellation it needs to...

December 21, 2016

Live Courageously

If, as some of us believe, our country is becoming more militarized, if more people...

December 20, 2016

Live Harmoniously

I listened this morning to the King’s College boy choir singing the sacred carols that lift me...

December 19, 2016

Live Lightly

The ambiguity is entirely intentional. Live lightly in the sense of treading lightly on the...

December 18, 2016

Live Kindly

Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Kindness” speaks of how loss and sorrow are prerequisites to the...

December 17, 2016

Live Spaciously

In his fascinating book Space, Time and Medicine, Dr. Larry Dossey explores the way our...

December 16, 2016

Live Mindfully

“Purity of heart,” Soren Kierkegaard famously said, “is to will one thing.” That pronouncement didn’t...

December 15, 2016

Live Deliberately

It’s a question I ask a child when another child has hurt her in some...

December 15, 2016

Live Patiently

Among the things a poet must depend on, according to Wendell Berry in his poem...

December 13, 2016

Live Mercifully

It was only after I memorized Portia’s lovely speech for Mrs. Matson, my exacting senior...

December 12, 2016

Live Gratefully

One of the many things I find endearing about my husband is that he thanks...

December 11, 2016

Live Faithfully

“Love changes, and in change is true,” Wendell Berry writes in his lovely poem, “The...

December 10, 2016

Live Playfully

Peter Matthiesson’s lovely title, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, rings a happy...

December 09, 2016

Live Locally

I know people who have lived all their lives in one place. I’m not one...

December 08, 2016

Live Globally

Two of our dear friends get up every day and read Al Jazeera along with...

December 07, 2016

Live Prudently

Now here’s an unpopular word. Sounds a little like prune or prude. Puritans used to...

December 06, 2016

Live Wholeheartedly

When he was two or three, my grandson Matthew, now a skilled gymnast, would throw...

December 05, 2016

Live Expectantly

We live in an unfolding story. The plot thickens and turns. If we look back,...

December 04, 2016

Live Simply

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” "Our life is frittered away by...

December 03, 2016

Live Beautifully

I suppose Henry James is an acquired taste. It’s one I acquired some years ago,...

December 02, 2016

Live Healthily

Every faith community carries some wisdom other people of faith can learn from—a style of...