Approx. read time: 3:30 min. In 7th grade I pretty much understood that I wasn’t into delivering the counterpunch. This was after I got dissed off the volleyball team. I don’t mean the school’s competitive team. I mean the one that formed at recess. The counsel I received? If they bully you, you bully… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:30 min. In these last, precious days of Advent my thoughts, and creative energies, are deep into the Scriptures of the Lenten season. And I notice that this Lenten immersion jolts my understanding of what I celebrate at Christmas. This is a good thing. Jesus, even in his infancy, has power… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:15 min. I’m a little over an hour into my seven-hour hike along the McKenzie River Trail. It’s a beautiful morning. My aim today? Hike ten miles. Breezes waft up from the river, cool and fresh across my face, even as the mid-July temperature starts to climb from the overnight’s high 50s…. Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:20 min. Living on Pandemic Time makes me forget that Easter was only four and a half weeks ago. Pentecost, only two and a half weeks ahead, seems a dot on the horizon. Easter and Pentecost—visible, colorful, joyful events. But these days I am noticing the invisible thread that connects the… Read more »
Approx. read time: 3:15 min. It’s early in the dawn hour, my hour of Morning Prayer. The psalmist this morning is yearning for God. Panting, hungering, thirsting for God. I gaze out the window toward the eastern horizon, and allow a space for the yearning to settle in. I too will know this yearning deeply,… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:10 min. I am thinking, today, of a moment in human history that was never actually witnessed, never recorded. Yet an event recounted down through the ages, launching a transformation of human consciousness. I am thinking of the moment of Jesus’ resurrection from the tomb. In the dark that precedes the dawn,… Read more »
Approx. read time: 1:45 min. This post is an excerpt from “The Fifth Word” in my book Seven Last Words and Eight Words of Easter: Meditations for Your Journey to Pentecost. I thirst, you say at last. With excruciating pain you heave your body upward and gasp for breath as the force of life escapes… Read more »
Approx. read time: 1:55 min. This post will appear in the March issue of Dimension Connections, the monthly e-newsletter of Theresians International. All the commentary seems to agree: Post-pandemic life will never return to normal. For now, we sleepwalk our way through a long dark night. Honestly, the old “normal” seemed more like normalized insanity,… Read more »
Approx. read time: 2:50 min. People have been saying “Good riddance” to the year that is now passed. I understand their feeling. “A year like no other” is shorthand for what is too complicated, too onerous, to recap. The past year was, like every other year, a gift, given in great love and full of… Read more »
If we are paying attention, we are being sobered. Here is my Advent prayer. Approx. read time: 0:52 sec. Somehow the familiar language of Advent doesn’t fit anymore. At least, not for me. And maybe not for you, either. We’re in a long season of purification, a painful season of sobering up to the reality that… Read more »
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