I was featured in a workshop done by my mom at her conference in North Carolina last week. She was talking about Celtic Blessings and about her book, Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me: Celtic Blessings . I got two whole slides in the PowerPoint presentation. And then Mom read this prayer she wrote about our daily walk. Bless to me this walk, This street I travel twice a day. Bless to me this companion, Jack, The little dog who walks beside me. Bless to me each house I pass a

To those who wake, Send your blessing. To those who travel, Send your blessing. To those who are in trouble, Send your blessing. To those...

Someone described yesterday as a day of "emotional whiplash." From the declaration of love, justice, and equality by the U.S. Supreme...

Took walks up and down the river canyon. Poked around and remembered. Watched the chipmunks. Took pictures. Knit a prayer shawl. Played...

Every year, as a Clergy member of the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church, I travel to Colorado for Annual...

Today is the 150th anniversary of the poet William Butler Yates, the one who wrote the poem that gave this mountain cabin (and 4 other...

I sat in the kitchen in the early morning and entered the stillness that comes with this place, this little cabin in the mountains. The...

If you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are. -Frederick Buechner

As we grow older we have more and more people to remember, people who have died before us. It is very important to remember those who...

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." -- Elbert Hubbard

Among the many blessings I received at last week's 5-day Academy for Spiritual Formation on the Psalms was the presence of a friend who...

Let this day be your day. Let your Spirit be in my spirit, Your words in my mouth, Your love in my heart. Let me be your hands, Your...

I wait each spring, watching the buds grow on Grandpa's peony, flown from Oklahoma to Tennessee, tucked in a plastic grocery bag when I...

Bless this tender bloom. Beauty emerging in the turmoil of spring. Delicate, intricate, miracle of life. Reflecting the presence of the...

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich...

April Fools!!

Jack at The Sermon on the Mount. Good news! 

The day when everyone's a little Irish!

Sometimes it seems As though my life is Careening out of control. Sliding on a sheet of ice, Tumbling down a hill, Falling off a cliff....