The world will always need God’s grace. And it will always be available for anyone wise enough to open their hearts to receive it. One day, I was speaking with Dr. Patout Burns, a professor of mine at Vanderbilt Divinity… Continue reading

Beloved, the seeds of love planted today become the hands of love tomorrow. What we need is here now, and holds the promise of all that could be. In the clatter of the Season, through the pressure of staffing limitations… Continue reading

Caregivers transform the lives of all they encounter. Love comes to fill the dark hole of another’s need. Without it, our lives are emptied of meaning. With it, our lives – yours and mine – are redeemed. Continue reading

I have reluctantly concluded that no matter how clever, amusing or seasonally appropriate, ringing cell phones are mostly just annoying. Continue reading

Hope runs high at Christmas. So does grief. In your private Christmas, I wish you both. Christ was not born to wipe away all our tears but to be present for us when we shed them. What I don’t wish… Continue reading

Our very life depends upon our ability to reach beyond the narrow nature of ourselves to touch the hem of God. When we do so (or when we at least strive to do so) we have brushed the edge of… Continue reading

Paul urged gentleness as well as the practice of thanksgiving. He offered these practices as ways for us to open the door to God’s peace. And in this peace we discover the presence, and the strength of Jesus. He waits… Continue reading

In a world colored by hate and evil, we can all choose to live with a view through the lens of fear, of competition or of loss. Or, like Stormy and the staff of Park Center, we can choose to… Continue reading

What raises most people’s energy is their ability to keep their eyes on a goal loftier than what any boss may or may not say. It is to remember, each day, that every loving effort to meet the need of… Continue reading

We can best deliver loving care when we see the humanity in the other. Once we have stereotyped someone as an object belonging to a class we think of as distasteful then we have harmed our ability to love. Continue reading