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December 2016

December 01, 2016

Live Imaginatively

My favorite question asked of men and women preparing for ordination in the Presbyterian Church...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Live Attentively

I recently saw a father stop in the aisle of a hardware store, lay down...

November 29, 2016

Live Vigilantly

I learned the term “hypervigilance” from a psychologist whose practice was full of adults who...

November 28, 2016

Live Boldly

Years ago we lived across the street from a couple who had emigrated from Ireland....

November 27, 2016

Live Generously

For Advent this year I'll be meditating on 25 adverbs, each of which seems to offer...

November 22, 2016

The Challenge of Poetry in Challenging Times

After reading bleak reports this morning of water protectors blasted by water cannons in freezing...

November 15, 2016

Come, Sweet Death

“Komm, Sußer Tod” – “Come, sweet death.” So begins one of Bach’s most memorable sacred...

November 15, 2016

A Post-Election Prayer

Creator God, in this unsettling transition, so dismaying to many of us who fear for...

November 08, 2016

What Has Love to do with Law?

I love your statutes, your precepts, your judgments, your testimonies, your commandments, your law, your...

October 2016

October 13, 2016

On Belonging

When people reminisce fondly about childhood I often wonder how many social trials in the...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Trust in Transitions

Life transitions—graduations, departures for new homes and jobs, for field work or long mission trips...

September 30, 2016

It’s Just Stuff–Isn’t it?

Sue decided to move after twelve years in the same apartment. The decision was followed...

September 30, 2016

We Learn by Grieving how to Grieve

“In my end is my beginning . . .” I’ve spoken with two people in...

September 29, 2016

Witnessing Last Things

Volunteering for Hospice has taught me more about living in the moment than a good...

September 29, 2016

The Measures of the Mind

“For the love of God is broader / Than the measures of the mind ....

September 29, 2016

Purposes Served

“These things have served their purpose: let them be.” – T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” A...

September 29, 2016

Wintering Through

“Only by wintering through it will your heart survive.” -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets...

September 29, 2016

Receive, Release, Receive…

Among my various experiments with breath prayer, centering prayer, and meditation, one of the most...

September 29, 2016

Generation to Generation

Listening to the audio edition of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal consoles me as I drive...

September 29, 2016

Let it Go

One of my favorite little girls on earth loves to sit in the back seat...

September 09, 2016

Come, Sweet Death . . .

“Komm, Sußer Tod” – “Come, sweet death.” So begins one of Bach’s most memorable sacred...