Walk the Talk

Walk the Talk

It was one of my colleague’s favorite expressions. He had many sayings. When life was hard and things were getting rough, he would say “We are walking through tall grass now!” But this favorite saying influenced the entire way he prioritized his life. If someone...
Reframing

Reframing

I have recently started completing puzzles. As I worked on the last puzzle, I simply could not get the upper right corner to come together. I had the frame completed but I could not find many inside pieces to fit within the frame.  As I worked and became a bit...
Life Begins . . .

Life Begins . . .

Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone! That was the phrase that caught my heart from the Hallmark movie. We have journeyed together through the desert wilderness wanderings of Lent, then our sojourn shifted into the hope of Easter’s dawning. Now we wait. We...
Becoming a New Creation

Becoming a New Creation

So Many losses!  Sometimes it seems as if human life is filled with one loss after another. Loss of security in the family as a young child goes off to school for the first time. Loss of friends, loss of job, loss of dreams – and the list could go on. As life twists...
Resurrection Blessings

Resurrection Blessings

It has been over 30 years and I still can recite the poem I wrote that day. “My Blue Pen” was the name of the poem. I wrote it for a workshop that I attended. The workshop was on Celtic Spirituality. That day my heart was smitten with the earthy spirituality of the...