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Permission to Rest

    I’m not able to fully rest at home.   Last Wednesday I woke with a pinched nerve and recovered just in time to lead a Friday/Saturday retreat. At home there were mounds of laundry. Tiny, flat, butterscotch-colored seeds…

Deep Breath: A Sabbath Practice

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.    St. Augustine   Our work this week has piled up heavy and we’re sure we won’t be able to climb out from…

Day 9: Play

Moving is hard, slogging work: new relationships, new rules, new horizons, and the daily mixture of grief and joy. You have been hard at work, my friend.   Today toss “have to” aside and travel on over to the side of…

Sabbath: An Invitation to Cease Striving

Hello you…heavy-laden one. You know that tug-of-war you’ve been straining with? All of your spirit pulling, begging, striving in the dust of a well-worn path? Today is an invitation to open your fingers’ maniacal grip. Feel the heavy frayed and frazzled rope…

Welcome Home, A Sabbath Blessing

We have been racing and filling and schlepping heavy loads and now… it is a deep breath kind of day, a put up your feet kind of Sabbath, a stop and watch the water flow kind of day.   Praying…

Permission to Rest

You are allowed to rest. This is permission. Invitation.   It had been a busy day, full of teetering stacks of laundry and ministry and the kind of slow exhaustion that makes one desperate for another cup of coffee…at 8…just to make it…

Sabbath playfulness

May you enjoy a Sabbath full of letting go of heavy things.  Play with color. Dance. Lie down on the carpet and listen to a gorgeous piece of music. Walk through the neighborhood feasting on the flowers pushing up. Perhaps…

Sabbath: Delight

Don’t you get the feeling that in those six days God created straight out of unbounded delight?   The red-eyed frog, the blue morpho butterfly, the elephant? Only someone with a serious sense of humor could have come up with an…

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