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I woke up to the sound of the wind blowing hard against the house. And almost immediately I remembered that in Hebrew the word for wind is the same as the word for Spirit. I love knowing that because it helps me pay attention to Sacred Presence in random, ordinary,...

One of the lessons I have been working on in my life for quite some time now is being present in each moment. It doesn’t mean ignoring what has come before or letting go of dreams about what might yet be, but it does mean seeking to avoid allowing either past or...

We are now half way through the year, and I would be willing to bet that none of us could have predicted how this year would unfold. But unfold it has, and is still doing so. The challenges are many and varied, and they seem to just keep coming. The drastic...

Today is my 64th  birthday. It’s taken me a long time to get here. A lifetime to be exact. In units we use to measure the passage of time it’s been: 64 years, or 768 months, or 23,376 days, or 561,024 hours, or 33,661,440 minutes, or 2,019,686,400 seconds. As I...

It’s Father’s Day and I am qualified to celebrate not because of biology but because of love. None of my daughters are genetically related to me. What I share with them is heart connection. And for that I will forever be grateful. Each of them in their own unique...

For whatever reason (who knows what goes on in my brain), this song came to mind this morning.  https://youtu.be/3ozmq8LwLas I was thinking about the Sarajevo cellist sharing his gift of music in the midst of the overwhelming insanity and horror of war (a true...

It’s been more than 10 years and I can still be surprised by grief. I was listening to random songs on my phone and this one came on. I don’t remember ever hearing it before but I must have because it’s on my phone. It only took a few words and my heart knew where...

In our culture, and even in our churches, we often get pretty stuck in our heads, so full of all those thoughts and ideas and words. We expound on them endlessly. We argue over them. We devote lots and lots of time and energy to exploring them. And they can be...