The Key to a Great Spiritual Workout

The Key to a Great Spiritual Workout

Congratulations!  You’ve invested a great deal of time, money and energy to be physically fit and healthy.  You exercise, you eat right, you get plenty of rest and you drink tons of water.  You put in all of this effort because you want to live a long, healthy life, right?  It’s important to you so […]

God Waited

God Waited

Surrender. There are two faces to surrender.  There is surrender that springs from obedience and fear.  And there is surrender that is birthed from trust and love. I started to write about this very topic, of Mary’s “yes” to God, several years ago.  I never finished the piece out of fear.  Fear that my views […]

Patience Smay-tience

Patience Smay-tience

Today is my mother’s eighty-fifth birthday and we will celebrate with coconut shrimp, whipped mashed potatoes, chocolate ice cream and Chardonnay.  She’ll get phone calls and birthday cards and flowers from friends and family. She’ll feel loved and appreciated. And tomorrow she won’t remember any of it.  Dementia does that.  It’s indiscriminate about what memories […]