Since this is Memorial Day weekend, I’d like to offer a bit of history for reflection. The significance of Memorial Day goes back two centuries and brings us the sober reminder that life is a precious gift we sometimes take for granted. Memorial Day was born out...
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One of my favorite poems to use for the meditation practice of lectio divina ("sacred reading") is “The Guest House” by Rumi, as translated by Coleman Barks: The Guest HouseThis being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,Some momentary...
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What do Isaac Newton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Abraham Lincoln, Vincent Van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr., Diana, Princess of Wales, Carrie Fisher, Mariah Carey, Jane Pauley, Parker Palmer, and 1 in 5 Americans have in common? All have all have made contributions to...
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Posted 4.23.21 -The change of seasons brings a heightened awareness to our senses. Spring is beginning to slip in with green shoots poking their way out of winter’s dormancy. Leaves and delicate buds on the trees somehow seem to make the birds songs sweeter. Or...
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Posted 4.23.21 -The change of seasons brings a heightened awareness to our senses. Spring is beginning to slip in with green shoots poking their way out of winter’s dormancy. Leaves and delicate buds on the trees somehow seem to make the birds songs sweeter. Or...
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Posted 4.23.21 -The change of seasons brings a heightened awareness to our senses. Spring is beginning to slip in with green shoots poking their way out of winter’s dormancy. Leaves and delicate buds on the trees somehow seem to make the birds songs sweeter. Or...
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Posted 4.2.21 - While he was at Bethany in the house of Simo the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on...
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Posted 4.2.21 - While he was at Bethany in the house of Simo the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on...
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Posted 4.2.21 - While he was at Bethany in the house of Simo the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on...
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Posted 3.26.20 - When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt...
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