It’s been difficult to focus on blessings lately. News services and social media inundate us 24 hours a day. For many people, the first thing we do upon waking is to grab our phone, open social media, and begin to doom scroll. When confronted by a world full of sadness and centuries of hatred, it’s … Continue reading These Are the Names: A Celebration of Blessing
I don’t know what I look like. I can look at pictures or stare into a mirror for hours, and still I will never know. In fact what I think I look like is a distortion of what I actually look like. Even though I know that, I will still make many of decisions based … Continue reading Broken Mirrors
Tom Bombadil, a character created by JRR Tolkien, once said to an angry old willow tree, “Eat earth! Dig deep! Drink water! Go to sleep!” It might just be me, but I feel like I have slept too long, and it hasn’t been a good sleep. My long winter’s nap has been a time of … Continue reading The Horizon Leans Forward
