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Less worry, more courage

July 29, 2024 • Give Us This Day

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 readings—running to greet the Lord, prescient in her recognition of Jesus as the Messiah, trusting God’s ...

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The rules we live by

May 18, 2021 • Life Lines

As we round the corner on pandemic and see a faint light at the end of our long Covid tunnel, I’ve found myself stuck—physically, due to some minor injuries ...

Life Lines podcast: grief and grace

April 11, 2021 • grief

After a few months MIA, the Line Lines podcast is back. On the eve of the 33rd anniversary of my mother's death, I'm talking about grief and grace, sorrow ...

Responding with heart means jumping in with trust

April 9, 2021 • Give Us This Day

I love how Peter tends to respond to Jesus with such pure emotion. As in today’s scene, when he leaps out of his boat and races through the water toward ...

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Lighting the Advent wreath: just hit pause

December 3, 2016 • Advent, faith, family

Lighting the Advent wreath each night for prayers before dinner has long been my family’s tradition. The flickering candlelight growing brighter with each ...

Entering Advent, sometimes kicking and screaming

November 30, 2016 • Advent, family

If you've been a reader of this blog since the early days, you know my family has had some Advent struggles over the years. There was the time we needed to ...

An ‘attitude of gratitude’ can reshape your life

November 12, 2016 • Life Lines

German mystic Meister Eckhart once said, “If the only prayer you said your whole life was ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” Gratitude has that kind of ...

Yoga, the True Self, and fear of change

October 30, 2016 • Yoga

Three times in my life -- three, count 'em -- I have either started to train as a yoga teacher (back in Austin in the 1980s), started the application process ...

Life in my 50s: don’t tell me what to wear

October 29, 2016 • Life in My 50s

This morning I posted the link below partly to make a point and partly because it was funny. A comment left on my post in all caps, telling me never to wear ...

Spiritual lessons at 65 miles per hour

October 14, 2016 • Life Lines

I was driving to Rochester last week to give a talk to the local chapter of Magnificat, and I decided to make the trip into a mini-retreat of sorts. I ...

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