Feb 3, 20202 minDon't just do something - stand thereIt had rained in the night and the morning dawned cold and gray and overcast. I was still recovering from pneumonia and the exhaustion...
Jan 27, 20202 minMining in Dark PlacesSome days the dark places just seem to be everywhere. Fathers, mothers, daughters and pilots fall from the sky and crash in foggy...
Jan 9, 20201 minat dawn...I'm not sure what I expected, a gong at one tick after midnight maybe. But there was only sleep. And as the night-tide recedes to make...
Jan 7, 20203 minHonor-Able2020 has arrived, not so much with a bang but with a definite knock-the-breath-out-of-you-whoosh of certainty. Mortality hovered close...
Dec 31, 20195 minTo Haiti, With LoveMy dear friend gave me a copy of Mitch Albom's book, Finding Chika, for Christmas. I was one page in when the tears started to fall. At...
Dec 25, 20191 minAfterBirth - a ponderance"The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight." Endless preparations completed or left undone – all the same now. The...
Dec 22, 20193 minCard(ed)Dear Friends who mailed Christmas cards to us, Thank you. Seriously. Thank you. I've read every word of every one of them. Every...
Dec 4, 20193 minIcon(ic)It's been a few weeks and I'm still pondering things we saw in NY back in October. The Met was, quite frankly, overwhelming and I admit I...
Nov 19, 20192 minImag(ine)We Monday girls have begun a new study. Imago Dei.* It set me thinking back to the Duke Divinity summers. Those long, wonderful,...