29 Jan, 2024
Last year my mantra was: I can’t control anyone else. As in, I can’t control my kids, my dog, my father, my wife, my neighbors… the weather, the world. I even know that sometimes I have a hard time controlling myself and what I’m doing. And,...
15 Jan, 2024
(This reflection is an adaptation from a shared fire service with Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church) The new year always conjures the image of a great blank slate for me. The beginning of a new calendar year is an interesting...
08 Jan, 2024
In the introduction to Eckart Tolle’s book, “Stillness,” he writes that true spiritual teachers help us to “remember” what we already know. Having said that, I’m not telling you anything today that you (or I) don’t already know. We know we need...
18 Dec, 2023
Have you ever experienced a white-out? Where it’s snowing and blowing so hard that you can’t see anything around you? I remember once, when I was young and skiing in Colorado, a blizzard whipped up while I was on the ski lift and I couldn’t see...
11 Dec, 2023
I believe that wholeness is something that we all yearn for yet find difficult to explain. We yearn to feel complete as opposed to broken. We yearn to feel fullness within instead of emptiness within. We yearn to feel peace instead of worry and...
04 Dec, 2023
Wholeness – the feeling of being undivided, the feeling of balance, peace and harmony, the feeling of completeness and integrity. I believe that this month, the journey of Advent, is the perfect time to talk about this because remembering the...
27 Nov, 2023
Since our Advent theme is Wholeness this year, let’s begin by defining wholeness. Wholeness for our purposes is about becoming fully ourselves without diminishing another. It is about living into our own sacredness, our own authenticity. When...
20 Nov, 2023
(This continues our conversation about Curiosity, in this case, curiosity about others.) Jesus sincerely messed with the status quo. Didn’t he know that there were people you talked to and people you didn’t? Didn’t he know that you associated...
13 Nov, 2023
“I don’t understand what I do – for I don’t do the things I want to do, but rather the things I hate.” ~ Romans 7:15 Have you ever felt this way? Can you think of a time you did something the really didn't want to do? Perhaps you weren't as...
06 Nov, 2023
In his book entitled Curious , Ian Leslie writes, "Curiosity is vulnerable to benign neglect. As we grow older, we tend to become less active explorers of our mental environment, relying on what we’ve learned so far to see us through the rest...