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My niece, Natalie, just started driving. On December 18th, she had her 16th birthday party and on Monday morning, December 18th, she woke her mom, my sister, excited and ready to take her driving test.  Friends, she passed her drivers test by only a few points and then she drove her mom home. Then, weContinue reading “Christmas is over. Baby Jesus is gone. Now what?”

There was a period of time in my life when I wondered if I was following God.  I had transitioned out of working in the church and began working with people who identified themselves from a wide variety of religious or nonreligious backgrounds. This was a very difficult transition for me because I loved theContinue reading “2022 Call to Fast & Pray”

In a few days, we will celebrate the winter solstice.  The winter solstice is when the tilt of the earth’s axis keeps us away from the light of the sun for the longest time of the year.  Many of our traditional winter celebrations including some of our Christmas traditions point us back to an ancientContinue reading “God is with us”

“The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi said, ‘If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.’ “Kill the Buddha” often is considered a koan, one of those bits of dialogue or brief anecdotes unique to Zen Buddhism. It is said that by contemplating a koan, the student exhausts discriminating thoughts, and a deeper, more intuitive insight arises.Continue reading “Wonder”

How many of you have experienced your faith journey…the journey of your life as a straight linear path?  How many of you might say your faith journey has been more of a wild roller coaster ride?  How many of you might say that your faith journey has been more of a spiral of moving aContinue reading “How We do things is as Important as What we do”

Philip Clayton in the book How I found God in Everyone and Everywhere writes, “Each of us has our own life to lead. Each one is powered by needs and longings, by love and hate, by acts of deep compassion and acts of self-assertion. Crippled by pain or dancing with joy, we walk this journeyContinue reading “We need Community”

To the untrained eye a painting created by Pissarro (puh saa row) , Monet, or Van Gogh looks like fluid stokes of paint creating an image. The impressionists painted their masterpieces using course lines, but if you view their work from far away the painting appears to be fluid and all the individual lines workContinue reading “Finding Balance”

Olive Schreiner’s story of a dream tells the story of how a single person’s purpose fits into the narrative of a larger vision.              A woman walking out of a desert approaches the steep, high bank of a river where an old man meets her. She is seeking the land of freedom. He tells herContinue reading “Your Brain on Gentleness”

60% of Americans report that they have had an experience of the presence of God or a patterning of events in their lives that persuades them that they are a part of a cosmic design. (Fingerprints of God, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, 150) A man named Michael Persinger gained notoriety for his research that produced whatContinue reading “Your Brain on Faithfulness”

Who hear has ever been called a Goody Two Shoes?  I have and it does not feel like a compliment, but this week I looked at the history of where this phrase originated from and I can confidently say that if you have been called a Goody Two Shoes, then you should take this asContinue reading “Your Brain on Goodness”