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Sacred Presence is a phrase I used a lot in my preaching days. Since I retired it hasn’t shown up as frequently in my regular speech patterns, but as a concept it remains central to how I experience the world. For me it is more helpful than the term “God”, because...

Several years ago I took a photo of a famous Japanese Maple tree in the Portland Japanese Garden in Washington Park. I recently pulled it out and used it to create several of my photo mandalas. I find that I keep playing with it. Once I start down the creativity...

The past few days I’ve been pondering the waning moon. Each morning I watch the sliver grows thinner and thinner as it drops closer to the eastern horizon. Today I got to see the final fading stage as it rose just before sunrise. It was barely visible and...

On what sometimes seems like a regular basis I manage to get myself “wrapped around the axle” (as a friend of mine is fond of saying). I get laser-focused on something that seems to have gone wrong and then blow it completely out of proportion until it fills my...

on my morning walkin the dim pre-dawn lightwith a sliver of the waning moonhanging in the skya dozen deer crossed my pathin a place I had not seen them before and then a bit further onI stood transfixedon the top of a hillas I watch them leap across the fieldbelow...

orange into blueeven after all these years still fills me with awe click here to view the rest of the photos from my morning...

Tonight my partner & I watched an on-line concert by one of my all-time favorite singer/songwriters - Carrie Newcomer. It was a lovely evening of songs & stories that moved my heart. In introducing one of her songs - “When the Light Comes Down” - she...