Sacred Meditations

Honoring our Elders in a Youth-Obsessed World

Honoring our Elders in a Youth-Obsessed World

Have you ever noticed how birthday cards change as we age? In our twenties, they celebrate our youth and potential. By forty, they're making jokes about being "over the hill."...

Honoring our Elders in a Youth-Obsessed World

Have you ever noticed how birthday cards change as we age? In our twenties, they celebrate our youth and potential. By forty, they're making jokes about being "over the hill."...

Love in the face of Hate: A Response to Political Violence

Love in the face of Hate: A Response to Politic...

I'm still rattled by what happened yesterday. Many of us are. But as saddened as I am, as much as I'm lamenting the loss of a man who exemplified the...

Love in the face of Hate: A Response to Politic...

I'm still rattled by what happened yesterday. Many of us are. But as saddened as I am, as much as I'm lamenting the loss of a man who exemplified the...

But I said sorry. Why didn't you?

But I said sorry. Why didn't you?

Have you ever found yourself standing in that awkward silence after apologizing, waiting for words that never come? Perhaps it was with your spouse after a heated argument. You swallowed...

But I said sorry. Why didn't you?

Have you ever found yourself standing in that awkward silence after apologizing, waiting for words that never come? Perhaps it was with your spouse after a heated argument. You swallowed...

On broken hearts...

On broken hearts...

Have you ever noticed how we describe deep emotional pain in terms of physical fracture? "My heart is broken," we say, pressing our hand to our chest as if we...

On broken hearts...

Have you ever noticed how we describe deep emotional pain in terms of physical fracture? "My heart is broken," we say, pressing our hand to our chest as if we...

Finding Your Place in God's Garden

Finding Your Place in God's Garden

Have you ever stood in a field of wildflowers and noticed how each bloom seems perfectly content being exactly what it is? The daisy doesn't strain to become a sunflower....

Finding Your Place in God's Garden

Have you ever stood in a field of wildflowers and noticed how each bloom seems perfectly content being exactly what it is? The daisy doesn't strain to become a sunflower....

Do not "hinder" them.

Do not "hinder" them.

Have you ever stood in a doorway, completely unaware that you were blocking someone's path? Perhaps you were deep in conversation, checking your phone, or simply lost in thought, while...

Do not "hinder" them.

Have you ever stood in a doorway, completely unaware that you were blocking someone's path? Perhaps you were deep in conversation, checking your phone, or simply lost in thought, while...