Joy is a Holy Activity

When your world comes undone, "happy" can feel trite—and impossible. But joy is altogether something else. It is a holy, spiritual activity that takes place in your soul. Whatever you have gone through, or are going through, let yourself feel joy.

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The Many Yes’s of Christmas

The promise of Christmas is the way things are right now are not how they have to be or will be. All things are possible with God who declares, “Watch, I am going to do a new, glorious thing!” God can coax new life, new love, new possibilities in each

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Precious Time

Time is precious. We have no idea what tomorrow holds. We live as if there will always be a next time to say, do, hear, forgive—love. The time is now to speak your heart, extend mercy, reconcile, share love extravagantly (as if it is your last time to do it).

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The Angel in the Marble

Within all of us lives the spark of the divine. You do in fact have Divine DNA. The only question is if those holy genes are expressed in the world and that is by your choosing. When Michelangelo was asked how he made the David, which stands 17 feet tall,

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A Cathedral in the Trees

We hunger for experiences of the eternal in the temporal and finite days of life. This world is filled with so much useless clatter, distracting us from the experiences that give higher meanings. It is more and more difficult to locate God in our crazy, mixed up, broken world. We

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More of the Holy

Maybe you feel that “hope” has become a cliché, “sweet”—lacking in muscle. I am here to tell you that hope is real, and as necessary as oxygen. To live in this conflicted world without hope is to watch your soul shrink within you; to abdicate a life of deep meaning

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Still, I hope

Welcome Back to a new season of Bread and Honey. Always my mission is to pass along a word of goodness to lift your spirit. Today I gift you with a personal mantra that has been sustaining me through these troubling times!

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Pearls Everywhere

Maybe like me you woke up Sunday morning feeling deep unease. The world feels as if it has come undone. The reality is every single day we can experience heaven and hell outside us (inside us too!). Do we meet the day from a posture of fear or hope? (I

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