Writing

“…Always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire, more...

Listen to “Becoming Human” narrated here: Read: As I flick on the switch, the tiny bulb meant to act as the star casts a warm glow over...

There’s so much to take in—the cacophony of sounds that is never-ending in this place. Our swelling, overcrowded city is bursting at the...

"This is how it happened for me." It was an honor to add my story to those who were all sharing how the legacy of Father Thomas Keating...

I leave more than the stale air of a thirteen-hour plane ride behind in the airport bathroom stall. When I emerge into the terminal in...

Preached August 4, 2024, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Newnan, GA The Feast of the Transfiguration (Observed)– Exodus 34:29-35, 2...

"I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes." – Saint Teresa of Calcutta It’s not something you talk about in polite...

The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with...

We put one foot in front of the other and the next step is revealed only as we are in movement. This demands a great deal of trust and...

I see them every day on the streets—the hungry. They stretch out trembling hands and plead for something to sustain them. A handout is...

Charting a Course Alone “You can be anything you want,” they said. “If you can dream it, you can be it,” we were told. My generation grew...

They were the kind of sobs that you feel like rock your whole body in such a way that something must certainly shake loose from your...

“In Your mercy confer on me a conversation pleasing to You, the patience to wait for You, and the perseverance to long for You. Grant me...

(Read Part 1: Awakening ) Part 2: Becoming   "Trust in the slow work of God… Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming...

Part 1: Awakening    “For my entire life, it seemed that people had been shouting at me—telling me what to believe and how to act…’There...

I sit in the place that will one day make up the center of my labyrinth. The leg of the chair teeters precariously between two pieces of...

I focused on the end of my fingertip, where it met circuitous lines on the crackled pink paper. I tried not to look ahead and how much of...

“To wonder is to stand in the towering shadow of God however frightened we are of our own smallness. Like Moses, let us pause at the...

The quiet of the morning is broken by the alarm that starts off on the periphery of a dream and shifts to a nagging pull into reality. I...

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had. – Richard Rohr My sense of...