We are in this time that may seem like one long break. We are not carrying the same, everyday concerns of our previous, before-pandemic lives, but most of us have certainly claimed new worries and anxieties: Grief from the tens of thousands of losses, heart-breaking stories of frontline health workers and other essential people risking their lives, Continue Reading
How To Respond When Everything Falls Apart
When everything falls apart, you learn what you are made of by how you respond. Yes, first you mourn and cry out in pain and despair. And then, when you find that you have endured, perhaps the worst you could have imagined, you have choices to make. How do you hold what has happened and how do you walk toward healing? When adversity confronts - Do Continue Reading
You Will Rise Again
Think about a time you were really down, a time when you were so filled with despair that you had no idea how you would rise again - Are you still in that place? What helped you get up? What did you learn about yourself by how you rose up from that darkness? It is a spiritual principle that there is an essential ebb and flow in life. We see it Continue Reading
Prayer For Those Not Ready To Forgive
The design of this season compels us to forgive, to open our hearts, and sometimes to re-experience wounds. Some of us have suffered profound trauma, at the hand of parents, partners, or friends, They might be fresh bruises or from many years ago - They bubble below the surface, having been pushed away, but now re-emerge, in the Continue Reading
It’s Time to Fly
It seems that since I’ve been an adult, I’ve often been the one who leaves — moving from my childhood home in Illinois to college and graduate school in Indiana and Massachusetts, then off to Berkeley with my husband Ely to pursue his degrees and begin a family and then up to Seattle, where we wanted to raise our two boys. Then, after fourteen Continue Reading