EVERY WEEK I send out a video of an ancient practice called lectio divina (ancient but so very accessible) which I call The Slow Word Movement to subscribers to this blog & write a letter in the afterglow or the wrestle directly…
Technology and the way we are consuming information is resculpting our brains. It’s slicing and dicing our attention span. . In an article by writer Philip Yancey in the Washington Post called The Death of Reading is Threatening the Soul,…
We spend so much time fighting with comparisons, don’t we? (I like this ice cream shop back in PA better than that one.) We build a fantasy world comprised of all the places we’ve ever lived or think we’d want to.…
Day 2: Listen “Moving? How do I feel about moving? I just hate feeling months of loneliness,” Mom closed her eyes, tears starting to appear. Deb looked up sharply and tapped the eraser of her pencil on the legal pad…
Nana squirted the colors out on white paper plates, four small mounds. Fingers dip in, tentative at first. “This is your sad page. Madeline,” mom explains, “draw your feeling. It doesn’t have to be a picture, just paint how you feel onto the…