Dear Friend, Happy Valentine's Day, 2021. You probably know this already, but this widely-celebrated-love-holiday was named after St. Valentine. What you might not know is that his love story is…
Dear friend, It scared me just a bit to type out that title. It's somewhat of a bold statement with the promise of the secret sauce to becoming whole. Yikes!…
I honestly couldn't remember my "word for 2020." I don't always have a "word" but through the years, friends and writers have given the challenge to embrace a word to walk through the new year ...a simple inspiration for a vision forward. It was interesting (and quite telling, I might add) to go back and see what had resonated and emerged as "my word."
It all welled up again. Anxiety that had become all too familiar. A simple routine scheduled appointment began to loom larger than a square mile on the calendar. The lab…
Today is the beginning of the season of Advent. In recent years, I've embraced this season more intentionally as a time of reflection and hope. It's become a tender space…
We've been in a pandemic twilight zone for 5 months now with an underlying condition just as frightening of racial unrest and increasing uncertainty in our world we call home.…
Today is July 4, 2020 -- the day we commemorate the declaration of independence from Great Britain. "Let freedom ring," we say. Today we celebrate the monumental birth of a…
My normal work routine lately has included a series of virtual meetings throughout any given day. This day was different. Our team at the non-profit I work for, Intentional Faith,…
In the wake of COVID-19, another deadly disease has spread to pandemic proportions seeking to suck the breath of life right out of you. While many infected with the coronavirus…
The Mama Mourning Dove showed up first -- weaving and crafting a nest for her soon-to-come baby birds. On her wings and just to the left, Mrs. Robin flew in…