Month: June 2025

There was once a man who loved his family but couldn’t bring himself to believe what they believed. He didn’t quite fit in. There must have been hard days. There must have been days when he wanted to leave everything behind. Maybe there were even days when he felt like burning his life to the…

Today is Pentecost. It’s the day in the life of the church when we celebrate God’s gift of the Holy Spirit to the community of faith. Jesus tells us: “This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with…

Instructions for living a life: Pay Attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. [1] My favorite poet, Mary Oliver, has a way of encapsulating a sentiment, or a lesson, or a day, or a life, into something you can hold in your mind, repeat to yourself over and over, like a mantra, until you have learned…