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My One WORD for the New Year

The Dawn of a New Year

The Christmas Blues

What do we do with Mary at Christmas?

Christmas is the Threshold of Invitation

Winter Solstice: the Word, the Night and Reflections

What I Learned About Self-Blessing from Two Old Monks

The Violent Enterprise of Busyness

A Three Letter Word That Changes Everything

The Mammogram

Feeling Invisible

Finding the Rope to Lead Us Back Home

A Liturgy for Someone's Birthday

Baking Ideas is Like Baking Bread

Searching for Wellness in Difficult Days

The Cloud of Unknowing

"No"-vember is a Time Say NO in order to Live the "Yes"

Finding the Softness of Our Kinship

I Am Not a Machine

Throwing Away the Maps

Letting Go…

The Remedy for Exhaustion

Uncaged

Trees: How the Tall Sentinels of Hope Help Us

Go Upstream

Our Marriage is Like a Pilgrimage

A Little Inspiration for You

Sighs of Recovery as Another Hurricane Approaches Our Shores.

Jarring Questions to Help Us Really Live

When Caring Hurts

This Thing Called Aging

SOS: The Universal Call for Help

A Prayer for the Forest in the Hurricane

Hurricane Lessons

Update on Steve & Gwen and Hurricane Helene

Writing a Poem About a Hurricane

The Primal Ache for Companionship

Soul Care and Artificial Intelligence

The Lost Art of Friendship

News and Ideas for Caring for Your Soul

An Apology and Confession to My Father

Sunflowers

Lessons in Happiness

A Third Space to Find Each Other

Dealing with Regrets

Finding Wisdom and Becoming a Sage

Join our new: 3C Group

The Queen of the Forest

Wounded Alleluia

The Nectar of Summer Days

The Inner Oven of the Soul

When Tolerance is No Virtue

Deep Listening Might Save Us

All Hail to the Tomato

The Courage to be Vulnerable

Becoming an Agnostic About Some Things

Why I hated and now love my birthday!

How Trees Can Help Us Find Equilibrium

Enough!

The Shift

The Pursuit of Happiness

Wild Church

The Four Apostles

The Burden of Belief

The Father's Day Ache

Summer Celebration!

The Speed of Life is Going to Kill Us

How Shall We Cope?

Finding Companions

The Sin of Certainty

Learning to Flock When the Going Gets Tough

Finding Permission to Live the Life I Want and Need to Live

What The Trees Do

The Wild Beyond

The Wisdom of the Mountain Laurel

Letting Our Souls Catch Up

There May Come A Time

Touring the World and My Adult Kids

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Tasting Contemplation

I Commend You

Easter People

Easter Tears

18 Minutes That Could Change Your Life

Things I learned in a Monastery

Is this life all there is?

Belovedness

Blue Birds in the Lenten Dark

Finding a Perspective to See and Tell the Truth

The Making and Unmaking of a Life

These Feathered Friends

What makes a life--"good?"

The Making of Wine

Moving from Being Alone to Being With

Love is a Feeling to be Learned

Why Lent is Important in Today's World

Grief: Anticipating "It" and Experiencing "It"

Living Undivided

Searching When You Feel Lost

What an Amaryllis is Teaching Me

This Thing Called Aging

Is the Abundant Life Really Possible Anymore?

Becoming Intentional

The Gate-Keeper

A Seasonal "Memoir" of My Life in Church

The Harvest of Winter

My Word for the New Year