Category: lent
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Five Minute Friday: Plan
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For such a very long time, it was so important for me to have a plan. For moments to be scheduled, for me to understand what was going on. This is how project managers are … and then, after much searching and wondering and thinking, I realized that I didn’t…
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Our Wedding Dance, or Dancing in the Kitchen
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Sean and I got married in October in an intimate setting. The wedding ceremony we had might not be termed as lavish particularly. But yes, we had plans to host a lavish one amidst a pecan orchard. We even considered booking a Wedding Venue in Fort Worth, TX that had…
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Lent: The Dance of Trying New Things
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On Saturday, Zoom (my son) and I headed up to San Damiano to help my best friend Tammy lead a two hour session with a group of about ten children. The unusual thing about this is that in it’s fifty one year history, this was the first time that San…
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How to Do a Centering Prayer Meditation
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My next retreat is on “Living in The Present Moment,” and much of what I’d put in the initial outline had been about meditation, learning to live in the now instead of allowing oneself to get stuck in the past, truly facing what’s in front of you. Meditation is an…
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Wednesday Wanderings: Awe
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“For what we need to know, of course, is not just that God exists, not that just beyond the steely brightness of the stars there is a cosmic intelligence of some kind that keeps the whole show going, but that there is a God right here in the thick of…
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The Lord Remembers: The Story of My Son’s Name
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When I graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1998, my parents gave me a trip to Israel as a graduation gift. It was amazing. I saw the places I’d studied, walked the roads that Jesus walked. Jerusalem was beautiful, rich with history, filled with the wonder of God and the…
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Better, not Bitter
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All day, Thursday, I heard my own footsteps saying “Better, not Bitter, Better, not Bitter” as I walked. It was the mantra to my steps as I journeyed to meetings, to lunch, to dinner with my retreat planning group. It wasn’t that I had much to be bitter about, a…
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Stations of the Cross: A Modern Approach for a Rainy Day Retreat
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This last weekend, at our retreat, we created a modern twist on the Stations of the Cross. Late on Thursday we realized that it would be too rainy to plan on using the outdoor stations of the cross at our retreat house. So we needed a new plan. I started…
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In Our Human Job Description
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In my final year at Yale Divinity School, I was named the Community Life Coordinator. It was a cool job, and it meant I oversaw all of the other clubs and committees, helped with budgets for those groups, planned parties, helped with the daily coffee hour after chapel, and well,…