Jeremiah 31: With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back …. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. Every person has cried from the depths, felt sorrow, experienced the brunt of unloving actions, known loss, been insecure, and been touched… Read More »

Hard to miss in our times of stress’s strain, social isolation, and fear that darkness is real. Our existence felt viscerally, deeply, and most personally is colored by our times and shared life context with ALL people in the world.  In the dark streets of life there is still a light from God.  This is… Read More »

In some sense sharing stories of faith, hope, love, joy, and redemption are invigorating and such sharing can also be very challenging. What commences as a goal to communicate some elements of life through the lens of faith and actual lived spiritual experiences can be transmuted into listening and caring to be present to the… Read More »

Psalm 132:3-5 “I will not enter my house or get into my bed; I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.” (NRSV) David’s search for a place for the home for God is… Read More »

From Holy Scripture: Philippians 4:6: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Some things are deeply imprinted in our memories and hearts.  Some of these experiences are treasured and deeply imprinted so deeply within our being that our character and way… Read More »

In John 18 Jesus says to Pilate some words that are straight talk, mattering truth, and revealing wisdom.  “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.” To which Pilate responded, “What is truth?” Straight talk:  what occurs between… Read More »

Psalm 16 excerpts:  Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge….you hold my lot…You show me the path of life.  In your presence there is fullness of joy… The flow of life’s spiritual stream is within and between each of us.  All things upon which we depend are all changing.  The season of… Read More »

Being fully alive means we are rooted in our shared unfathomable resource within us all – a loving fullness of our Sacred Source.  Hoard Thurman’s insights are an invitation to give back to God all that God has given to us- LIFE!!! With every breath, step, encounter, remembrance, and feeling we can honor this gift… Read More »

Mark 12:34 “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” Regardless of whether you know it or not, how you are living, and how your loving- regardless- God’s Way of living is not far from you – EVER!! This relationship becomes apparent the instant we open our hearts to a certain WAY of living.… Read More »

Dreams and hopes for our shared lives on this planet are part of the vital fire of God’s blessed gift of life.   There’s beauty in our dreams and hopes that can’t be fully appreciated until we are transformed in its presence.  Our mothers and fathers of our human family dwelt in the “new-made fields… Read More »