Beatitudes Blog
The Prodigal Next Door
The prodigal is your neighbor…or possibly yourself.
Sacrifice: Making Yourself Sacred
Guidance on what to give up for Lent.
Prayer: More Than an Excuse to Do Nothing
How I overcame my doubts about praying for others.

Breathing Your Way to God
A reflection on our most life-giving rhythms.
The Dream No President, Congress, or Court Can Reverse
There is hope woven into the grief so many feel in our nation.
How I Will Celebrate the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump
A spiritual way to observe the inauguration of a man who wounds our spirits.

Pray For Me, Reverend: An Open Letter to Representative John Lewis
On this Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday, let us honor a friend of his who carries his ministry forward.
Nice Anyway
My journey from a nice face to a nice heart.
Grieve Your Dreams, Renew Your Hopes
On renewing your hopes in the new year.
Top 3 Posts Beatitudes Blog 2016
Check this link for nuggets from the three most popular Beatitudes Blog posts for 2016.
How Christmas Answers Our Perpetual Dissatisfaction
“Tis human to be dissatisfied. Christmas delivers the surprising solution to the perpetual problem.
Christmas: When God Meets Us Where We Are
If you think about it, Christmas speaks hope to our most despairing questions.
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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