Continuous Living

Continuous Living

“Anxiety turns us toward courage, because the other alternative is despair.” Paul Tillich I’ve claimed “seasonal affective disorder” for years, and that may be so, but I’m starting to realize it’s not only summer to fall that...
You are Loved

You are Loved

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr My recent minimalist kick led me to cleaning out a huge closet that had boxes of mementos and letters. One of them has all of the sympathy cards I received...
Crossing the Date Line

Crossing the Date Line

“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in the side. A sense of the dramatic, of the tragic, of the infinite, has descended upon us, filling us with grief, but even above grief, wonder.”...
Tireless Messenger

Tireless Messenger

To try to be brave is to be brave.” George MacDonald Today we are outside on our driveway blowing bubbles. It’s only May, and the leaves are freshly born and green, but already, now that they are here, they are foreboding of fall. I am safest in March,...
Writing on My Birthday

Writing on My Birthday

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit – Life! -Emily Dickinson It’s my 42nd birthday today. I have no fancy plans. It’s not the cheeriest birthday poem, but I can’t help but...