We can’t avoid the dark night of the soul, or dark and challenging times of our life. Yet, at the first sign of the shadow of darkness moving toward us, we tend to run. Many hide from difficult times by becoming addicted to substances, food, work, or relationships. Trappist Monk Thomas Merton says …
After my Big Dream years back when Jesus invited me to follow him, I woke with an undeniable feeling that my life would ever be the same…that the core of me was forever changed. In the New Testament, when Jesus says to the blind man, would you like to see? He is not only asking …
We all know being too busy can wreck havoc on our family and spiritual lives, where self-care and balance fly out the window. During my childhood, my mother hung an antique illustration on the wall above the toilet in our downstairs bathroom of a woman tied to the ground, with ropes wrapped around her ankles …
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Recently, I bumped into a friend coming out of the YMCA who just returned from a month dream vacation in the Holy Land. We stopped to chat as she shared …
Years ago, we lived for a brief time in Bolinas, a one-horse town along the rugged coast in northern Marin County, just north of San Francisco off the winding stretch of Route 1. To get there you drive past the small, quaint beach town of Stinson Beach and then past Bolinas Lagoon, a serene tidal estuary, …