We're only a few days into Advent, and most of us have been bombarded by so much Christmas music and Christmas advertising and Christmas everything that we're already sick of the season. In a world where the Christmas countdown begins sometime before ...
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Discovering the Divine in the Everyday
When I was approaching my 60th birthday a couple of years ago, I decided to have two words from my favorite psalm tattooed on my left arm. “Be still,” it ...
It was a beautiful October morning, and I was seated in a jam-packed St. Peter’s Square waiting for Pope Francis to begin Mass on the Feast of the Guardian ...
Fear seems to be ever-present in our world these days, but we don't have to live there. When we move forward in the face of fear, we discover unexpected ...
When I initially developed the Stillpoint Retreat, which I have led at Pyramid Life Center for six years and counting, my hope was to give people a space ...
Here’s the Life Lines column I wrote 23 years ago, in the days following 9/11. So much has changed since that time. Our world has changed. My family has ...
On a recent rainy morning, I ventured up to Trader Joe’s on Wolf Road in Albany, armed with a vacation snack wish list from my daughter, Olivia, who would be ...
My annual tribute to the baby I lost 26 years ago today, the baby I call Grace:
For the past few days I’ve been looking at the numbers on the calendar, ...
My reflection from today's Gospel (John 11:19-27) in Give Us This Day:
As much as we’d like to think of ourselves as Martha in today’s Scripture ...
Every now and then, something happens to remind us of our absolute faith in God. It might not even be something monumental. In fact, most times it is ...