You Left Me, Lord

You Left Me, Lord

You Left Me, Lord.Had you never gone, I would have thought— But you left. And with you went every speck of my not-whole-but-holey “holiness.” Pretty clever, Lord—How you teach your “chosen” they’re NOT chosenBy virtue of their virtue.Pretty painful, too. I worry...
An Unkind Mind

An Unkind Mind

The other day an 83-year-old living in the skilled nursing center where I minister was taunted by junior high school kids. They were kids who had taken up residence in her unkind mind. By virtue of our noble birth as children of Divinity, we all should be free of...
Embrace the Day

Embrace the Day

| ​Embrace the Day | Let me not in anguish say, When tragedy knocks here, “Oh my, ungrateful fool I was! I missed the golden year.”   Life is glad and joy is mine, But often pain reigns ‘round me. Reduce my days to trite concerns? Let mundane things confound me?...
The Power of Acceptance

The Power of Acceptance

| ​The Power of Acceptance | Few practices provide more spiritual growth, freedom, or inner peace than acceptance. When our boat has capsized and broken into pieces, there is little point in struggling against the rapids. Better to go with the flow until another...