"What if you woke up tomorrow and everything that you forgot to thank God for the day before was taken away." This is my Birthday week! And unlike most who fret, ignore, or lament their birthday
Continue ReadingEvery summer of my childhood my family would load up in the Suburban (six kids, two adults, often a dog, fish, or cat (Oreo had six kittens under my sisters bed one summer!), trunks full of clothes, and a bag full of jelly bellies and head to the South Carolina
Continue Reading“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God. … It is the pure glory of God in us.” -Thomas Merton Isn't it great to know
Continue ReadingTake a look at this picture. This is a wise beyond her years six year old who has more courage, resilience, and "living hope" in her small frame than most of us could muster in an entire lifetime. Meet Mae! Not once, but twice she has taken on cancer, two grueling years
Continue ReadingI can remember in my Junior Tennis days running what was surely my 50th suicide drill on the tennis court, and hearing my coach yelling those words across the court, "no pain, no gain." I didn't like the phrase then (or the suicide drills) and I surely don't like it
Continue ReadingThis past Holy Week, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris celebrated its 850th Birthday. To commemorate this special occasion, the Cathedral was gifted with a new set of bells. On Palm Sunday the bridges and gardens around the Cathedral overflowed with people to hear the first ringing of the Cathedral's new
Continue ReadingWelcome to Holy Week! I wish I could say it's all pastel-hued easter eggs, bunny tails, and Cadbury eggs from here. But that's not reality. That's not how the story was written. That's not how our story is being written. Part of being human is finding oneself on the edge
Continue Reading"We are all at times unconscious Prophets" -Charles Spurgeon No one can deny that we live in an imperfect world. You only have to turn on the six o'clock news to painfully see how many of us are hurting. So many starving hearts—for food, shelter, safety, dignity, acceptance, hope, and especially
Continue ReadingToday, we are each standing at the entry of the labyrinth of Easter, a Lenten pilgrimage of twists and turns before we reach the center, Easter Sunday. There is a rich history of Christians embarking on pilgrimages to encounter God. In our own time, over 300 million people set out
Continue ReadingOn this week of Valentine's Day cards, chocolate hearts, and red roses, stop for a minute and ask yourself honestly the question, "How well am I loving?" Every great story, whether penned in the eloquent words of a poet or lived inside the very breaths of a human being, are marked by love.
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