Living Like We’re Dying: Relflections and Exercising for Wise Aging
Change can be hard, especially when we are unprepared for that change. Remember puberty, for example. So much was happening in your body, mind, and emotions. Ideally, loving adults help teens prepare...
View ArticleSinging Straight to the Heart
From “Love it Forward” by Jeff Brown: “Words. So powerful. They can crush a heart, or heal it. They can shame a soul, or liberate it. They can shatter drams, or energize them. They can obstruct...
View ArticleSimplicity of the Soul
Simplicity is a spiritual discipline because it requires intentionality to practice. The discipline of simplicity means having what you need for the season of life you are currently in, no more but no...
View ArticleThe Simple Life
I have a hard time remembering how I communicated with people ten years ago. How did I set up a meeting before the Internet or check in with my kids before cell phones? How did I look up information,...
View ArticleYour Child’s Spiritual Mentor
Parents are, by nature, spiritual directors to their children. Intentionally or not, gifted or fumbling, believers or not, a parent is a child’s first spiritual mentor. The reality of parents as...
View ArticleO Come, O Come Emmanuel
It was a tough couple of years with a lot of loss in a variety of areas. There were times when Advent’s cry of “Maran atha, Come, Lord Jesus” was all I could manage. My prayers bounced off a brass...
View ArticleThe Ancient Form
Many are mourning the death of Robin Williams. The “Mork and Mindy” house is here in Boulder, Colorado where I live. In the last week, it has become a shrine. Hundreds of people have come, some from...
View ArticleBecoming Fire
All of creation, it seems, has been obedient to its destiny, “each mortal thing does one thing and the same . . . myself it speaks and spells, crying ‘What I do is me, for that I came’” (Gerard Manley...
View ArticleBig Medicine and Strong Magic
I don’t know and can’t imagine what the disciples understood our Lord to mean when, His body still unbroken and His blood unshed, He handed them the bread and wine, saying they were His body and...
View ArticleMusical Resolutions
As we think about New Year’s resolutions, here are three hymn texts that might be useful to your spiritual formation in 2015. You could use them as part of your daily devotions, even memorizing them....
View ArticleBig Questions are Usually Not Theoretical
Jesus the Christ went right to the heart of every matter for each person and situation the Gospels record him in, often in startling ways. For example, I still am baffled by the question he asked in...
View ArticleDesert Spirituality
Last fall, I was privileged to co-lead a retreat on the Desert Fathers and Mothers. What was especially meaningful was the retreat was held in the desert of New Mexico at a retreat center called “Ghost...
View ArticleCommunity in Christ, for Christ, with Christ
1.Will you let me be your servant, let me be as Christ to you? Pray that I might have the grace to let you be my servant, too. 2.We are pilgrims on a journey, we are trav’lers on the road. We are here...
View ArticleFaith In, Through, Despite Failure
My life flows on in endless song Above earth’s lamentation. I hear the real though far-off hymn That hails a new creation. No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I’m clinging It sounds an...
View ArticleWhere in the World is God?
I have been praying for the Persecuted Church for over 30 years. I receive prayer points from several organizations working to bring the light of Christ to areas where the Church is the bruised reed...
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