Beatitudes Blog

Re-membering

Re-membering

How does mourning find its way to gratitude? Take a clue from Psalm 22, Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, or your ongoing life story.

Before Christmas Memories Fade

Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you (Matthew 5:11-12)....

Top Posts for 2014

      In July 2014, I started the Beatitudes Blog to encourage people in emotional pain.  Every brief post sheds light on the Beatitudes and invites readers to let the blessings flourish amid their suffering. Whether you have been following all along or...

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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