I woke up in the middle of the night with this psalm verse running through my head. This is not one of my "favorite" psalms and this sort of thing does not typically happen to me, so how and why did this particular psalm end up in my sleepy subconscious. ...
When I gave up my home-based business to start working in an outside office full time more than two years ago, I gave up a lot more than writing in my ...
'Tis the season to give thanks, but what if we change things up a bit this time around? It could be a gratitude throw down of epic proportions, if we all ...
I was recently sitting in a log-cabin chapel on a beautiful lake in the lower Adirondack Mountains when the woman next to me offered a prayer intention ...
I spent the past two days at my grandmother's bedside, watching her die. We don't know how long she has -- minutes, hours, days, weeks? For anyone who's been ...
Ever since I first came in contact with the writings of Thomas Merton about 28 years ago, he has spoken to me. I know I'm not alone there. Countless people ...
So it occurred to me, as I scrolled through old photos looking for something to feature on Throwback Thursday this week, that the pajamas I was wearing on ...
The shoes were placed by the front door with care last night. Okay, to be honest, the almost-17-year-old just left them there out of habit, but the two girls ...
A lot of my friends and family members are already wrapping Christmas gifts, which I find truly astounding because I haven't even started shopping. Haven't ...
If any of you were around these parts last year, you may remember that we started our Advent season not with a prayer but with a coin toss. Because that's ...
