Six In The Morning

Coffee in hand at six in the morning that chilled my Florida bones. My wife and I sat on the deck with Orion overhead and the sound of the ocean three blocks away. Everything silent except the lull of little waves. A moment of deep peace and grace pregnant with gratitude that brought tears to our eyes. Live with gratitude...

Children

The children file into the day school, their faces lit with smiles, their hair combed or tossed, their superhero lunch boxes held by small, soft hands. They are walking, breathing bodies of hope and love. And I think adults should become more like children and less like adults.

Friends

Friends are God's gift of love. Where would we be without them? Give thanks to God who gave you your friend(s).

Doing Dishes

Practice the presence of God while you're doing dishes. Each dish in your hand can become the love of God. Everything ordinary can become spiritual practice, the ultimate goal of which is love of God in every detail of life.

Questions

What God-oriented questions are you asking? No question is too silly or strange to ask. What's on your mind these days?

Food

The array of choices can be overwhelming.


Fish from Thailand, berries from Mexico, peaches from Georgia. We live in the middle of a food-web that I feel estranged from. Estranged from my food. Where does it come from, who handles it, how much gas does it cost to get it to me, how is the farm labor treated, what would life be like without the global network that makes it way into my local grocery store?

Whatever happened to seasonal, local food? Whatever happened to food-simplicity?

Turn It Off

We are besieged by noise. Even in the relative quiet of an unoccupied room with only a computer as your friend. Even there the computer hums.

Sometimes you just have to get unplugged. Turn off the phone. Mute the tweets. Let facebook exist without your status updates. Turn the ipod, TV, and Wii off.

In all of my years of spiritual searching, in all my time groping for a sense of God's presence I have never found a deeper way to be touched by the Spirit than through silence.