Spiritual Reflections - Bread and Honey

In Spiritual Reflections

Divine Courtship

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of the bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings,...

March 26, 2017

In Spiritual Reflections

The Game of Life

There is a very popular game in Nashville called The Escape. You may have seen the bumper stickers around town that boast, "I Escaped!" A team of eight are locked in a room filled with hidden clues. To win the game your team has to solve the clues and make...

February 19, 2017

In Spiritual Reflections

Toss a Hot Chili Pepper into your Roux!

Ask any French chef and they will tell you the “roux” (flour, clarified butter and special seasoning) is the foundation of every classic French recipe. A good roux lends a memorable dish, sauce or soup its depth, intoxicating aroma and velvety richness. A truly inspired chef intuitively knows when his...

February 6, 2017

In Spiritual Reflections

A Larger than Life Spirit

In memory of Dr. Robert Cochran I remember as a child going to McMahon's children's shoe store in downtown Spartanburg to buy my Easter white Buster Browns. The salesman would measure my foot, go to the back room and return with the perfect pair. He would ask me to stand, push...

January 23, 2017

In Spiritual Reflections

A Magi Faith

There are only two ways to live your life. One as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein On an auspicious night over two millennium ago, a mysterious star appeared in a Van Gogh night sky catching a magi's attention. Was it a...

December 19, 2016

In Spiritual Reflections

Open Your Palm

I recently heard this story of a crosstown New York City bus stuck in rush hour traffic. Everyone on the bus was cold, annoyed and soul-weary. The minimal exchanges of words were curt, eyes cast to the floor and postures slumped. There are just some days when it is just plain...

December 5, 2016

In Spiritual Reflections

Bullseye to the Soul

You know when you hear a song (often it's one you don't even like), and suddenly it becomes the soundtrack of your life? In the shower, pulling into the school pick-up line, pushing your cart down the milk aisle at the grocery store, jogging around Radnor Lake, even drifting off...

November 14, 2016

In Spiritual Reflections

Your Cornerstone

On an auspicious morning in the year of 1163, standing in the rarified French dust of what would one day become the great gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame, two men, one a bishop, the other, the Pope of Christendom, sprinkled holy water, read from the Psalter, and serenaded an unsuspecting...

November 7, 2016

In Spiritual Reflections

One Flat Tire

After the mad morning rush of breakfast, lunch boxes and the drop off of five kids at three different schools in the morning, I was giddy pulling into the parking lot of Radnor Lake. This was to be baby Finn's first introduction to my sanctuary. I tightened the straps and...

October 23, 2016

In Spiritual Reflections

Faith Gazing

"The sky will spill with stars." NASA's prediction for this year's much-anticipated Perseid Meteor shower (August 10-12, 2016). The Perseid Meteor Shower occurs every year when the 16-mile long, 11th century Comet Swift Tuttle passes by Earth on its orbit around the sun leaving a trail of celestial dust in its...

October 2, 2016