Beatitudes Blog
As Grief Walks, Comfort Comes
On the promise of comfort after loss.
A Christmas Baby Reflects on the Meaning of Birthdays
If Christmas is the model birthday, what does your birthday and mine mean, Christmas baby or not?
Christmas Alone and the Christ Child
God touches the lonely this Christmas.
Thanksgiving 2020: Bring a Little Easter In
Consider bringing a little Easter into Thanksgiving 2020. For God is doing something good through all the bad of 2020.
The Hard Work of Unity
How peace begins in your heart, not in your President.
Vote with Love: Politics and Purity of Heart
What does spirituality have to do with your vote? Everything.
Jonah and Our Hard Political Hearts
Of course, you’re glad God loves you. But how merciful do you really want God to be?
Julian’s Joyful Insight Into Sin (During Bad Times Like Ours)
How Julian of Norwich saw through suffering and sin to hope and love.
Meek Moses Raises His Hand
On the only character called, “meek,” in the Old Testament.
Sacred Grief, Holy Help
Normal grief is one thing, sacred grief another. The bereaved person’s sense of something more springs from a sound spiritual intuition.
Fear Not? Listen to Your Fear for Deeper Faith
Read, “Fear not,” as a word of encouragement…. but not as a literal command. Rather, listen to your fear. Let it lead you to prayer.
Love Knows the Incomprehensible God
Recall an experience too wonderful for words. Was it God? Love? Both?
As a psychotherapist and spiritual director, I bring well-honed insight and skill to these posts; yet, my vulnerability plays a more important part, for more than advice from experts, serious people of faith need resonance with fellow travelers.
In my writing and in your reading and comments, may we face our challenges in God’s compassionate presence rather than in a private dressing room where we try in vain to make ourselves presentable to God at an appointed meeting. God meets us where we are.
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