The Parable of the Teacher and her Students
Scattering… hope some seeds plant and grow.
Last to Lunch: No one deserves to be first
Being last is a way of life for the least of these. How many do we notice and invite to go first?
Softening the Surface
Have you ever watched water striders, the spindly-legged creek-surface-dwelling bugs, scoot along the surface of still water? (Did you know that not everyone refers to these wonders as water striders? Some call them Jesus bugs. Ha! They walk on water… Jesus bugs!!) Anyway, amazing isn’t it that a creature can be so nimble and light […]
I take a deep breath
The S-L-O-W breath is not anxious or hurried. Its journey is resolute, measured, sublime, destined. How overlooked. How magnificent. How perfect.
What if “blessed are you” really means “get up, go ahead and do something”?
What if, instead of “Blessed are you when you…” Jesus really said, “Get up, go ahead, do something, move” and what will be actually was?
In Our Element: when work is play
All the work is worth it when it lands us in our element and it becomes play.
Back from the brink
There will always be things to fear. Thank goodness we have a partner in life who can pull us back from the edge.
Designed to Do More than Reflect: Holy Refraction
We can do more than reflect the world back to itself. We can refract earthly things to embark on kingdom things.
What is it about poetry?
What is it about poetry that gets to us? that speaks to us? that opens our unhearing ears and unseeing eyes?
What if we held Easter and everyone showed up except the Christians?
A unique Easter calls us to respond in ways uniquely our own.