It has been a while since I typed out a manuscript for a sermon. These days, I usually reflect on the text and (try to) listen deeply, then I stand and share what is on my heart. Given where we are, this week it was helpful for me to pay...
I catch myself more often now, I think–I hope. I catch myself when the anger and fatigue and, honestly, disillusionment that seems to have soaked the atmosphere begins to rest heavily on me. I bring myself back to my awareness and pay attention. I take a few moments and follow...
In this season of my life, I have found how important it is to start each day with meditation, with this core practice that grounds my day. It is a time to name what my intention is for any given day. What is my intention in going to a meeting, offering...
Yesterday during our retreat of the episcopal seminarians of Candler, while I was walking, I saw a vine of cherry tomatoes that surprisingly was half dead and half alive. Some tomatoes looked healthy and fully developed, and theand broken and rotten ones in the same vine. SOme were dead because...
Opening Prayer: Heavenly Creator, give us the strength to be your face, your voice, and your hands in the world. Amen Are we being recognized? In today’s Gospel we heard two instances of recognition. These questions could be interpreted in different ways. Today, I want us to look at these...
+Help us, Lord, to become the master of ourselvesthat we may be the servants of others.Take our minds and think through them;Take our lips and speak through them;Take our hearts and set them on fire with your love. AMEN.+ The American humorist, Garrison Keillor, whose stories often have religious allusions,...
Today is the last Sunday before I begin my sabbatical this coming Thursday. I am very aware that sabbaticals are incredible privileges, and I am very aware that I really need one. I am aware that the entire team will hold things graciously and ably while I am away, and...
This homily is #6 in our Lenten sermon series, Essentials of Prayer. Today is the Fifth Sunday in Lent, and, as we look toward beginning Holy Week with Palm Sunday next Sunday, this is the last in this particular sermon series on prayer. Looking back at the prior weeks, we...
This homily is #5 in our Lenten sermon series, Essentials of Prayer. We have looked at prayer in our bodies; prayer in the face of suffering; and prayer as our very life. Today, we look at prayer that reveals, that pulls back the curtain, allowing to us to see the...
This homily is #3 in our Lenten sermon series, Essentials of Prayer. The 1993 movie Shadowlands gave us a glimpse into the incredible love story between the Oxford and Cambridge scholar C. S. Lewis and his wife, the American poet and writer Joy Davidman. They marry first as friends and...