Recalibration

Being Heard is Finding Home It was an intense week at the homeless agency. One person after another came into the small chapel to talk. One delightfully flamboyant gay man spoke with his hands so quickly I had a hard time understanding and following his thoughts. Another, in his 30s, younger than the first, originally…

Settlement of Refugees Another article popped up in my feed about Our Loneliness Epidemic. Long before the 2020 pandemic, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy raised the alarm of an ongoing loneliness epidemic in 2015. A long list of causes – insufficient time with family, social technology, living in an individualistic society, overworked, no religious…

Finding the Sacred in All of Life In her book A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary, Macrina Wiederkehr says: “You live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in…

I have been really struggling over the last several weeks thinking about what to write for this Recalibration. There are so many things going on in the world that can easily overwhelm us. There’s renewed bombing of Kyiv, unrest in the Middle East with threats of an on-going war, unprecedented earthquakes in Venezuela, floods and…

Inspired by reflections on: Genesis 18:1–15; 21:1–7 — Receiving the Promise Exodus 19:2–8a; Matthew 9:35–10:8 — Becoming the Promise There are moments in life when we sense that something new is trying to emerge.Sometimes it arrives as an invitation.Sometimes as discomfort. Sometimes as a longing we cannot quite explain.Sometimes as a call we do not…

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” Photo from National Geographic. When I first heard this voiced in the 2011 movie “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” I was delighted. The statement is attributed to several different people including John Lennon and Fernando Sabino. It’s a phrase of…