This past summer, I had the opportunity to serve as a chaplain at a hospital in my hometown. While I learned a number of invaluable lessons, the most powerful of them all revolved around the concept of gift. I...
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” –Fred RogersHave you ever...
“One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.” John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic...
Talking about living well is a generally enjoyable topic: what are the things that make life pleasant and bring me joy? That’s something I can definitely get my head around discussing. But talking about dying well? Not so much...
Pope Francis challenges us to "look into the face of the asylum seeker and really hear their story so that they are no longer a stranger to be feared and we can no longer be indifferent to their need." ...
Before a dear friend invited me to hear her speak, I had never heard of Joan Chittister. A few days after accepting the invitation, my friend and I attended the book release for her recently published biography. In what...
Today I scurried off to our local beach for a pre-dinner swim. I left my sons and husband to sort out hamburgers and a salad. It was a risky choice, in terms of actually getting a meal, but it...
Reread my last blog post and thought, "maybe I came off sounding a little harsh on the ladies with little ones". Perhaps it was all my own projection. When I had "little ones", and I did, about a million years ago, I...
If you want to be having your socks knocked off about the crazy/hilarious/ poignancy of being a woman then you ought to be listening to Glennon Doyle Melton. She's talking to anyone who will listen and hugging you...