• Awareness

    Tinker Bell

    I’m thinking about Tinker Bell this morning…not the scantily clad tiny blonde of Disney’s animated creation, or even the glowing but rather stout fairy described by J. M. Barrie in his original story Peter Pan. I will always associate Tinker Bell…

  • Awareness

    Leaf Dancers

    I was sitting in my blue Adirondack chair down below the house one early October afternoon, taking a rare half-hour to still my busy mind and hands when I caught sight of one of those small and beautiful orange and yellow…

  • Perseverance

    Perseverance Introduction

    Perseverance keeps us trying and doing and working. It is both a practice and a deep, tender place where God meets us in the minutiae of life or in the midst of awe-inspiring vistas. Stories range from exciting travel adventures to…

  • Transformation

    Transformation Introduction

    The tender place of transformation captures life’s subtle changes as well as the sudden interruptions of life. These stories describe practices, decisions, and events that irrevocably move us into different ways of being, sometimes for the better… sometimes not. Transformation can…