Saturday Mornings

The USNS Comfort sailed into New York Harbor on yesterdayin the best grand entrance since Willy Wonka. The Navy's hospital ship, home...

I've noticed ...that it is rare for me to be de-sensitized to just one thing.

It is not in perfection that we reach the divine, but through the gateway of our mistakes and our suffering . -- Mirabai Starr

As much as we’d like to believe that Jesus is the author of our Right Christian and Wrong Christian distinctions, we can’t because it is...

...the war between health and the economy is underway. This is pretty cool!  Tonight is Earth Hour, a global movement that encourages...

‘ Poem for the week' -- "Breathe": Breathe. Go on and live your unexpected life. Inhale love. Exhale surrender . Tr...

If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humility . -- Anonymous

Particularly striking, in light of what things looked like just a few weeks ago. Today is the first day of our Governor's (Indiana)...

Until recently, the range of our knowing has been limited by our experience , with the relatively small group of people that, for whatever r...

Ever noticed ...that it is one thing to know about something and quite another kind of knowing to experience it?

As we grow in the spiritual life, our life will become increasingly centered. Only a few things will really matter. Because of the coronavi...

On the Lighter Side :

New York was still making money a week ago. A few people wearing masks, some closings, but generally business as usual. And then we tumble...

Is this what it feels like without community & friendships ? ‘ Poem for the week' -- "Outcast": For the dim regions w...

Sparked by some of the impacts of COVID-19 , I've been thinking more about the nature of communities and the relationship between the id...

...the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. -- Kurt  Vonnegut

I'm wondering ...is there anything that shapes us, or re-makes us, more than love ?

We  implore  you on Christ’s behalf: Be  reconciled  to God. All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave u...

Through the lens of the Enneagram we have greater self-knowledge and the ability to let go of what only seems good in order to discove...

From:   COVID-19 #Coronavirus Data Pack What seems to be really going on and the fight over it: Italy’s Health Care System Groans...

From Michiana Chronicles : My daughter spent a lot of her spare time this winter wrapped up against the cold on the streets of downtown ...

...how far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tole...

My recent knee surgery had a goal, at least in my mind.  It was pretty straight-forward:  to be able to run again, pain-free. I have lear...

Employees who exercise regularly are 25% more focused, driven , and efficient than those who don't.  -- Gary Sorrell

I've noticed ...though I too often tend to chafe against it, slowness can have its own kind of  joy . My recent knee surgery has slowe...

I love the recklessness of faith . First you leap, and then you grow wings. -- William Sloane Coffin

The only way to get initiative is to take it. It’s never given. And some people hesitate to take it, perhaps because they’re worried that...

Believing that spirituality is just about transcendence, and not about the here and now, allows us to excuse ourselves from intervening in t...

Many people believe they cannot afford (to risk) change .  And, it seems even more believe it is just too hard to embrace its disruption, e...

Once you have given up knowing  who is right ...it is easy to see neighbors everywhere you look. -- Barbara Brown Taylor Instagra...

Ever noticed ...how awful it feels when you recognize the possibility that people like you primarily for your contribution , rather than for...

As my last few posts have intimated, I am increasingly suspicious of organizations of truth that seems to lead more toward the defense of i...

Our response shouldn't be, "as long as I can (cover it), it doesn't matter to me...".

' Poem for the week' -- "The Factories": I have shut my little sister in from life and light    (For a rose, for a rib...

Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe . -- Simon Sinek So, what am I working on? What are you wo...

One of the great ironies of life, it seems to me, is that growing old (or dying) often becomes about waking up . The gospel of the day is...

The agency of change is not coercion, it is space . We can even be some of the space, for someone else, that allows them to  change .

I've noticed ...that, in general, I am fascinated by people. The exception being, of course, those who hurt me (at the very least, fas...

To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are. -- Barbara Brown Taylor

On the Lighter Side : Sometimes I use words I don’t understand, so I can sound more photosynthesis. -- Anonymous

Instagram:  bobgoff A setback isn't your enemy; it's your teacher . -- Bob  Goff

' Poem for the week' -- "I Cannot Sing": I cannot sing, because when a child,     My mother often hushed me.  The oth...

Solitude is a place of conversion, the place where the old self dies and the new self is born, the place where the emergence of the new man ...

I've been feeling disconnected lately. Every time I feel disconnected and seek connection externally, it never seems to really work. ...

If we don't change , we don't grow. If we don't grow , we aren't really living . -- Anatole France OK—we get it!  At s...

I'm wondering ...who am I, in anonymity? In other words, how much is my sense-of-self predicated on acceptance , not to mention approv...

The Perennial Tradition constantly recognizes that we are part of something more than we are observing something. Read that again: we are pa...

From Michiana Chronicles : I can pinpoint the exact moment when I realized most American women of a certain age dye their hair. I was a ...

Visual - "Loaded Down": Winona Lake, IN Loaded down  feeling of cold nothing seems alive except the memory of your vi...

The more you have , the more you may be  afraid to lose. This is not only true for our material lives; it is true for our social and pol...

Ever noticed ...when loyalty is weaponized—usually used to pit something (or someone) against ...something (or someone) else, not to mention...

You are meant to grow , change , and adapt.  You are not meant to wear the same shoes you did at 15, or 30, that you did at 5.  The same...

I've noticed ...as a 9 on the  Enneagram , I don't tend to believe (operate) that truth is as much resident within me, as it is acc...

God’s seed is in us. If it were tended by a good, wise and industrious laborer, it would then flourish all the better, and would grow up to...

I suspect if you asked, most people would say they hate gloaters. Those people who, fresh off some kind of apparent victory (or even succes...

That’s unlikely. If I’m lucky, I can glance at them. But just for a second or two. Our fears burn so bright that if we truly face t...

As I’ve come to understand that life “ composts ” and “ seeds ” us as autumn does the earth, I’ve seen how possibility gets planted in us e...

Sometimes, albeit not too often, I get bored with the way I think . Does that ever happen to you? Do you ever get bored with what you think ...

Our most creative ideas don't tend to come when we're consciously focused on the problem. -- Scott Barry Kaufman

I've noticed ...when someone adds a little something extra to what they're doing, it moves me. Recently, I saw someone do this on ...

Instagram:  aaronieq As I stumble out of the certainty & fear of overly-conservative faith, I'm praying to stay clear of the c...

' Poem  for the week' -- "Music": There is music, deep and solemn    Floating through the vaulted arch When, in many a...

More than an evolution of ideologies , real  growth  leads towards  love .

I like ideas .  I love ideas that work on the ground-level.

Cynicism is lazy. -- Rob Bell

Ever noticed ...good guys aren’t always good...and, bad guys aren’t always bad? In spite of how obvious this is, a little acknowledgemen...

It’s well-established that the gap between the middle class and those who earn the highest incomes in the United States has grown wider ov...