As Thanksgiving has been approaching (and is now here!) I’ve been thinking about gratitude a lot lately. When the boys were little we used to go around the circle before dinner and talk about what we were thankful for in the past year. Some years we would hear things like “I’m...
How are you feeling this week as Thanksgiving approaches? This year it is distressing that we are not able to gather together for Thanksgiving in the ways we are used to doing. Thankfulness probably does not come as easily in a time of pandemic! In the book of Colossians, chapter 3, the...
I’ve written before about fear. There is lots of it going around…touching each of us in some form. Fear of catching the Covid-19 virus…of getting very sick…of dying from it... or having a loved one die from it. Fear of the other political side…socialists!...
As I stared into the incredible Grand Canyon last week, and as the vertigo swirled over me, I felt incredible small. The immensity of the hole and the myriad colors and textures is overwhelming. Then, as I read the interpretive signs along the Rim Trail, I gained a deeper sense of why I felt...
Wednesday, the day after elections and the world awaits with anxiety unabated. I arrive at the DMV office to have the lienholder removed from my car’s title. A simple task with all appropriate paperwork ready—and I find the line long. Coronavirus continues to slow society and insist...