We had a visitor just outside our porch this evening, looking down with wide eyes and singing their particular song. The other feathered...

I was lucky enough last fall to teach the Introduction to Worship class at Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Dr. Joy Schroeder was on...

All of my life I’ve been lucky enough to have wise elders who have come alongside, providing wisdom and perspective and care and...

I joined the Ted Lasso bandwagon late in the game. We just started watching it a couple of months ago. We are caught up and, along...

No one likes criticism, I suppose, but those of us who grew up on the receiving end of it with regularity might shy away from it more...

Today’s gratitude is simple, which isn’t always how I feel in these very complex, disoriented days. From time to time we have deer who...

To move from offering gratitude for being in the same place as our grandchild, to today’s subject necessitates that I note that they are...

It’s true that with twenty + days left in this gratitude practice, I’ve not written about some of the most obvious things that fill me...

Almost a week’s worth of gratitude to fit into one post. It’s not that I’m not grateful. It’s not even that I can’t name that for which...

Today I went to a conference where I knew almost no one in the room. I’m an extrovert, but even so, this felt a little bit like being...

Each day on my list of things and people to pray for, I remember the people of Ukraine. What started over a year ago as a daily headline...

Last night we drove into Tacoma, which is conveniently close at hand, to the campus of Pacific Lutheran University, for the final concert...

We have a tradition of giving the newly born in our family a jack-in-the-box for their first Christmas. We’ve found them with clowns and...

Recently we decided to take a big leap of faith. Literally. We packed up our lives and put them in storage (okay, our belongings),...

There is a theological understanding of humanity as co-creators with God. Together with God we create life. Human life through the...

It’s hard to imagine that libraries and classic books are actually under attack in this country these days. Some of my fondest and...

We’ve had such an interesting last month or so. Engaging in the actual task of dis-engaging from place and work and people and embarking...

Today I am thankful for birth-days. And new life. And babies. I'll have more to share about that in the days ahead, but just now, it is...

“Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.” -Anne Lamott This morning we got up, at...