The reality of sacred work strikes hard in a caregiver’s encounter with the pain of others. Across America, a quiet group of charities deal with children who have been abused. It’s hard for the rest of us to see the… Continue reading

On the edge of a new year, we may rejoice in the gift of our humainity and the opportunity we have to be a carrier of God’s Love. We may revel in the chance we have to weave an even… Continue reading

Take a moment to savor your hands – the sacred, storied tools of your heart and mind. What memories have created the crevasses and smooth plains of your landscape? What hopes and dreams are carried in the furrows and grip… Continue reading

And this is the great gift we got to unwrap again yesterday. It is the joy of love – the chance to enter 2007 with a renewed sense gratitude for the gift that comes every moment of the day -… Continue reading

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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