15 Sep, 2025
As we celebrate the 14 th anniversary of Sacred Journeys, let’s talk dreams. Jack Kornfield, in No Time Like the Present, wrote, “When you understand that your lie is your canvas, your dreams can open and become bigger or more modest, more...
08 Sep, 2025
The wisdom book of Ecclesiastes was written by a person called simply Qoheleth. Qoheleth (interestingly enough, a feminine word) was the Hebrew word for someone who gathers other together, in this case like a teacher or preacher. In...
02 Sep, 2025
Let me begin with a wisdom story from a Sufi writer (remember Jesus appears in the Quran as well as the Bible): A Sufi writer once said of Jesus that sometimes people would make fun of Jesus or curse him aloud, but that he would always answer...
25 Aug, 2025
Patience… How many of you consider yourselves to be very patient people? I try, but sometimes I feel like I may have been there on the day they were handing it out, but I probably left because the line was too long! Patience is what the apostle...
18 Aug, 2025
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 is clear… two people are better than one. Together you get more work done, you support one another, you can keep each other warm, protect one another and are stronger. Yep. We know this. And we’ve talked about long-term,...
28 Jul, 2025
There are so many Ordinary Things we can learn from, teachers beside us at every moment, that I imagine we could continue this series for a long time. For now, we’re going to end it with The Lesson of the Tree . It probably should have been...
21 Jul, 2025
Ordinary things… we’ve been talking about ordinary things for a few weeks now… small drab brown things that embody the sacred as much as anything else, the echoes of what we put out into the world coming back to us, the teachers by our side at...
30 Jun, 2025
Here’s the basis of what I hope to convey to you today. Life is rarely cut and dried. Questions abound. Sometimes it feels like the answers are elusive, and yet I believe if we pay attention, we will often find the guidance we need in the...
23 Jun, 2025
There is a powerful and humbling truth woven into both scripture and life: what we put out into the world comes back to us. The words we speak, the actions we take, and the energy we carry ripple outward, shaping our relationships, our...
16 Jun, 2025
Ordinary Time (the church season between Pentecost and Advent)… is just so… ordinary. Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost are filled with purpose and exciting stories. People especially flock to church at Christmas and Easter because they...