A Few of My Favorite Things: Week 10 | Three New Books
Ending the day without anxiety. Receiving spiritual truth and practical wisdom from another mother of a child with a disability. And entering into a story about the extravagant tenderness of…
Healing Is Not an Achievement
Healing is not an achievement. It is not something where if we just work long enough, just eat the right foods or say the right prayers or believe better or…
What if I Want To Name-Drop the God of Love?
Have you ever felt really proud to know someone? I’m thinking of growing up with someone who becomes a celebrity. I have one such person in my life. She’s not…
Is Personal Healing Opposed to Social Healing?
I used to act as though personal healing and social healing were opposed to each other. If I make time to take care of myself, I don’t have time to…
Like Trees, We Need Stress in Our Lives
I just learned that trees die without stress. A friend told me about the experiment of biosphere 2, where scientists tried to understand how our ecosystems work. One thing they…
Return to Belovedness
“We are intimately loved long before our parents, teachers, spouses, children and friends loved or wounded us.” —Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved I’m rereading Nouwen’s Life of the Beloved…
The Bible Is Not About Behavior Management
I often misinterpret the words in the Bible as behavior management, when they are really invitations to surrender to love. Jesus says: “Do not judge, and you will not be…
On 9/11, We Remember That Love Is Stronger Than Fear
[If you are looking for my Love Is Stronger Than Fear podcast, please go here.] Evil is always (and only) a distortion of the good. This world was created good,…
Do You Want More?
What if there is so much more life available to all of us than we even dare to hope or believe? What if we are drinking from puddles when reservoirs…
Tired of Myself, but God Is Not Tired of Me
I make the same mistakes, commit the same sins, turn back to the same unhelpful habits over and over again. For me, these repetitive issues come under three banners. There’s…
