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These ponderings originally appeared one per day via MailChimp. This weekly version keeps them in one place for people who missed the daily postings. If you would like to sign up to get them daily, you can do so by filling out the Mailing List Form HERE. Setting the Bar The greater danger for most …
These ponderings originally appeared one per day via MailChimp. This weekly version keeps them in one place for people who missed the daily postings. If you would like to sign up to get them daily, contact me HERE. Habits As a survival mechanism, habits that have worked in the past turn out to be …
The headlines are enough to make even the most relentless optimist despair. Those of us who are trying to ignore world news still find it seeping in around the edges while we stand in lines at the grocery store or bank or post office and listen to the conversations around us. So, as we hurtle …
It has been a joy spending my days developing a new creative rhythm and then sharing each day’s image and reflection with the Art Journey Support Group each night. I’ve learned a few things already: I really really really need to prune my stash of fabrics. The hardest part of the process is attaching the …
Today we are hovering from Dublin to Holyhead on the next part of our journey. I think of it as ‘sailing’; the ferry company thinks of it as ‘flying’ (presumably since we are not in the water, but over the water.) Since Ireland is our point of departure, I also get to participate in my …
Christmas Eve is a particularly busy and special time in clergy households. The whole day focuses toward the services that mark this night in a profound and intense way that is hard to explain to others. Everything else becomes peripheral to that worship and the preparation for it. No matter how stressed the days leading …
In my family system, I am the oldest of three siblings and I am substantially older: seven years older than my brother and ten years older than my sister. [And (while I have the chance) I would like to note that being the oldest – for all of you who are in some other family …
Our daughter grew up as a Preacher’s Kid Squared, so she heard her father and me talk more than once at the dinner table about weddings and marriages, and from a very young age she heard us discuss the kinds of questions we asked the couples who came for pre-marital counseling: questions about values, about …
Someone I know is getting ready to leave her home of almost four decades. She knows that it is time to move into a new stage of life and the possibility that she will not be quite as independent as she has been until now. She is wrestling with grief and loss at the same …