Between times in tough times
It was not quite noon Monday when the sound of fear was so loud all around me that I realized I had to grasp consciously for that great Sunday Thad's feeling. By Wednesday, I knew exactly what a...
View ArticleThe Key to Today
Here's a piece of wisdom from another spiritual masterpiece: the Big Book."And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or...
View ArticleEyes of Wonder - and Where are my Glasses?!
Sometime this afternoon, a client of mine began to rip through a pile of boxes he has not yet unpacked, urgently looking for a Mickey Mouse mouse pad. In a flash of insight having nothing to do with...
View ArticleBotox for the Soul
Maybe your mother did this too: every time I wrinkled my forehead in worry, or frowned in irritation, she’d say to me “You better be careful or your face is going to get stuck like that.” Of course I...
View ArticleThe Next Little Thing
So here we are, challenged this week to spend time in our very own personal field of wildflowers, to reach out and let God embrace us. In the words of my long-time favorite book, “I think I can; I...
View ArticleJust Do It!!!
After hearing Jimmy's sermon and feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders, I was racking my brain trying to figure out when I could get to the beach. The beach is where I feel the happiest and...
View ArticleKeys, clues, and seeing the invisible
Jimmy talking about “breakfast for dinner” got me thinking about Green Eggs and Ham. Why that so stuck in my mind sitting at the Jazz Bakery wasn’t quite so clear to me . . . .Last week I had been...
View ArticleSometimes it just doesn’t make any sense
For as long as I can remember, the hardest question for me has always been “How could God let this happen?” The question has been hurled at me in accusing tones by people who really mean ‘if this god...
View ArticleOur ever-present visitor
When I was in college, I lived across the country from my parents. We weren’t quite so casual about air travel then as now, so I had a bunch of long-time family friends I had adopted as “surrogate...
View ArticleOne foot in front of the other
Perhaps some of you have noticed: I'm a bit of an action junkie. Not a high-speed adrenaline type action junkie, but a when-the-going-gets-tough-find-something-to-do type junkie. What’s this about? I’m...
View ArticleThe joy of noise
TE4-6274: my first phone. Well, my parents’ phone when I first remember having a phone – and I am told that I made it mine pretty much all afternoon, every afternoon. I would sit in the high-back chair...
View ArticleThe holy wholly holey mess of humanity
One of my favorite movies is The Philadelphia Story and my favorite line in it is Katherine Hepburn’s: “I am such an unholy mess of a girl.” It’s a breakthrough moment for a woman who has spent all of...
View ArticleThanks, Penelope
For putting this up for all to enjoy. And I whole-heartedly back your good wishes for everyone this holiday season. We throw around a phrase - "Happy Holidays". Here's a little thought; What could you...
View ArticleStarlight in a midwinter sky
Latitude: 31° 42', North. Longitude: 35° 12', East ... BethlehemLatitude: 34°North, Longitude: 118° West . . . . Los AngelesImagine this: Long nights where life is sunshine oriented; sudden cold in a...
View ArticleLeaping into the new
Did you know we are having a “leap second” on New Year’s Eve 2008?I’m not sure it’s going to make the last few hours of the year and all its deadlines any easier, but I vote we jump on the anomaly and...
View ArticleSomeone to watch over me
With thanks to the Gershwin bothers, I want to share some of what I think are very resonant lyrics:There’s a saying old, says that love is blindStill we’re often told, "seek and ye shall find"So I’m...
View ArticleA Rule is not a Rule is not a Rule
We’ve been talking a lot about Rules lately, and how they are so easy to rely on and so hard to let go of – even when we know that the Rules may not take us where we mean to go. We hope that doing our...
View ArticleThe End of Days – When Everything Will Be Fixed, Right?
Jimmy’s teaching and our dialogue this past Sunday got me to thinking about how impatient we are to have things Fixed – and how we seem so often to think, or at least behave as if we think, that there...
View ArticleGiving it up
Not too long ago, I was talking to a friend about Lent and he commented that he doesn’t generally give up favorite foods and such by way of observance. Although I may be in the running as the world’s...
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