The Meditation and the Meaning

A love story about the Bible, losing it and finding it, and an invitation for your ideas.

the fierce gentleness of now

There's been so much talk about what the Great Pause would teach us, but do we really want to learn it?

Some Impossible Light

Chapter 1 of a pandemic novel where there is no new normal, only a rediscovery of the timeless magic.

Performing Grace

Dear Pandemic, how do I love thee.

Even Followers Get Lost

The reliability of a hope that requires no feelings of hope, a love that does not require us to feel lovable, a faith that holds in the deepest doubt

"Sure seems your strawberries are ready."

We are being given a gift. Not the gift of greater productivity, or the chance to learn a new skill, or the opportunity to clean the basement. We are being offered our humanity back.

Life is Not a Balance

Jesus shows us that life is not a balance. It is a convergence. It is a meeting of uncertainty, familiarity, and inspiration which mix themselves up into a nexus of creation.

The Hunger for an Easter Coming

We tell ourselves stories in the face of loss and uncertainty. As for me, a simple script for this wake has been hard to find. Instead, rising each day is the hunger.

Too Much to Carry

We are holding onto more than toilet paper. The daily deluge of uncertainty is causing a hoarding of a different kind, requiring a recommitment to the art of letting go.

A Lamp for Each Other

So much fails in the face of trauma. Even words fail. And yet we are here, holding out for each other, and that may be enough.