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August 2014

August 23, 2014

How Does Spiritual Life Smell?

I have worshiped with many different people in a wide variety of places. For me,...

August 16, 2014

Spiritual Life Encourages Us to Take Heart

This has been a challenging and difficult summer, filled with painful news from around the...

August 09, 2014

Spiritual Life is Hard

It can be easy for us to perceive spiritual life as soft and fluffy, all sunshine...

July 2014

July 26, 2014

Spiritual Life is Beyond Words

The deep, clear truths of spiritual life are beyond words. We try to use words...

July 19, 2014

Telling the Stories of Our Spiritual Lives

The story of your spiritual life may begin, "Once upon a time," or "A long...

July 12, 2014

Feeding the Fire of Spiritual Life

How do you feed the fire of spiritual life? At times, spiritual life almost roars...

July 10, 2014

Benedictine Work

I am an oblate connected to a Benedictine monastery. An oblate is a lay person...

July 05, 2014

Celebrating Spiritual Life

How do we celebrate the deepest things in our lives? I think it is a challenge to...

June 2014

June 28, 2014

Monk in the City

I was not born contemplative, nor was I born in a large city. I knew...

June 21, 2014

What is Healthy Spiritual Life?

What does healthy spiritual life look like? How does it feel? I know people who...

June 14, 2014

Why Do We Hide from Spiritual Life?

We love life and health. We work very hard to be physically healthy, to build...

June 07, 2014

Day of Fire

My church has a thing about fire. It is not the church in which I...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Where is Your Pain?

Most of us do not enjoy feeling pain. We do our best to hide from...

May 24, 2014

A Weekend to Remember

This is a weekend to remember. In the moments between sleeping in, grilling, sporting events,...

May 17, 2014

Beyond Perfect

There are people who feel responsible to be beyond perfect. They believe that everything, and...

May 17, 2014

Beyond Perfect

There are people who feel responsible to be beyond perfect. They believe that everything, and...

May 15, 2014

Work in Progress

We begin our lives in ways that are beyond our control. We are born into...

May 10, 2014

The Power of Listening

I believe in the power of listening. We live in a time when listening has...

May 03, 2014

Walking Together, Each in Our Own Direction

You and I are walking together. We may be headed in different directions, toward different...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

The Power of Gratitude

I am not always as grateful as I would like to be. Sometimes I see...

April 19, 2014

A New Easter

When I was growing up, Easter was about eggs and bunnies, candy and clothes. And...

April 17, 2014

My Best Work

I do not see myself as an artist. The idea of working away for years...

April 12, 2014

The Power of Tomorrow

We trust the power of tomorrow. We believe that tomorrow is another day. Tomorrow will...

April 10, 2014

Forging Ahead

The work I do flows out of who I am. It has taken me a...

April 05, 2014

Giving Up Limitations for Lent

We live in an amazing world filled with wonders. It is easy for us to...

April 03, 2014

The Work That Has Chosen Me to Do It

There was a long time when I believed that I chose the work I did....

March 2014

March 29, 2014

The Power of Touching the Sacred

It is the fourth weekend of Lent. Easter morning is only three weeks away. We...

March 27, 2014

Life’s Work

It is easy for us to think in terms of finding the balance between our...

March 22, 2014

The Third Weekend of Lent

The one thing most people know about Lent is that you choose to stop doing...

March 20, 2014

The Spirit of Work

I was told that work was supposed to be hard. You knew it was "work"...