Bedtime prayers are an important but often lacking part of our evening routine. I want to leave my kids, each night, with a bigger view of God and a deeper sense of their at-home-ness in God, but that’s a tall order at 8 pm on even the best of days....
It’s my second day of Physical Therapy for lower back pain. I lay flat on my back on a green, cushioned table. My knees are bent and I lift my pelvis in and out of bridge pose ten, twenty times. “How does that feel?” the therapist asks. “I feel it...
Julian of Norwich, a 14th century anchoress best known for her deep belief in the love of God, is often depicted with her only companion, a cat. Can you imagine how happy this makes me? “Pray as you can, not as you can’t.” – Dom...
Last week, my friend Karen Weiss from Waterworks Ministries in State College, PA, came over to interview me for her podcast. We had a great time sitting in the sunlit Little House on my property talking about writing as a way of paying attention to life and as a...
Shift each log. Make room for air to move through. Turn your head away and inhale, deep, through nostrils. Then turn again toward the dark stove and exhale. Aim low, for the coals, but not low enough to stir the ashes. Blow out long and hard until all air is...
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