Life is a series of learning opportunities: We’re faced with a challenge, and then we find a solution. Or an opportunity which results in success or failure, and so on. There appears to be the right way, and often times this awareness comes from exploring the bad or wrong way first. We learn the best way […]
Last Wednesday evening, I was talking with my oldest daughter, Emma. She’s in the last weeks of her senior year in high school. She has secured admission to her dream college and received a full-ride scholarship in vocal performance and theater. Still, like many other teenagers around the world, she’s trying to find the motivation […]
As I’ve been sitting with our community over the last week, one theme keeps coming up: It’s the importance of embodied spiritual knowledge. By this I mean, knowledge that comes from sustaining direct experiences of the Divine, rather than from ideas. Intellectual knowledge alone does not create meaningful change, for no matter what effort or […]
When I see myself sitting in the circle with you and the rest of our community, I am moved to tears. I cry because I see God’s presence in you and as you. I cry because all the noise falls away, and there is only Divine Presence here. Not just in and as you and […]
Our community has been foremost in my mind over the last number of weeks. This is always the case, but something has shifted for me. From a meandering walk to a purposeful movement and cadence. One result has been that I’ve been engaged in offering support in new ways (YouTube and Facebook Live Streams, Virtual […]