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2021 Newsletters

  • One Candle Lights Another

    Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. (Leo Tolstoy) Once in awhile a brief encounter impacts us and lingers for a lon...

  • Sustaining Our Hope

    Two events in November come together as hope-filled bookends. The month opens with a favorite feast of mine: All Saints. It closes with another: the Thanksgiving holiday. This year these two events especially capture my attention due to the...

  • Rest for the Weary

    Hope is usually at the center of my heart. But that was not the case a few weeks ago. I felt disheartened and wondered if anything would ever change regarding the damaging issues burdening humanity and our planet. My discouragement began on...

  • Return to the Root

    (My new book, Return to the Root, is due out in October. The following contains some excerpts from the “Introduction.”) If you pull up a plant in the garden, dig out a dandelion in the lawn, or find a shrub uprooted by a fierce wind,......

  • Being Contented

    In his poem “Any Morning,” William Stafford describes himself as “Just lying on the couch and being happy.” He wryly comments that the troubles of the world can go on without him for awhile. He’s simply enjoying a time of contentm...

  • Becoming a Field of Compassion

    Last week I led the workshop for new Boundless Compassion facilitators who gathered for a week of growing in compassion. I marveled at the desire, determination, and dedication of people like themselves who are willing to tend to their own ...

  • Happiness Doesn’t Depend on What Happens

    “Joy is the happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.”                            (Brother David Steindl-Rast) We stood before a thickly branched blue spruce that must be at least 70 feet tall. How different we......

  • A Valuable Reminder

    Many thoughts surfaced in mid-April when I stood before a coffin and gazed upon the body of 93-year-old Sr. Rita Mary. In the past year she had designed and sewn over 1,000 masks to safeguard others from Covid-19. I wondered how many lives ...

  • The Gestation of Joy

    The long span of being confined by Covid-19 has been like an entombment for many of us. I offer the following to provide encouragement as we experience the layered, spiraling cycle of life-death-rebirth, the ongoing process of inner transfo...

  • The Message of Melting Snow

    Here in Iowa the strong sunshine is melting our mountains of snow. Eventually, thoseenormous mounds will become little hills, then tufts, and finally disappear altogether. Ihave enjoyed this process every year and never cease to marvel at h...

  • A New View

    Lent formally begins February 17th with ashes placed on the foreheads of those attendingchurch services. A somber message of “Repent and believe the good news,” or “Dust you areand to dust you shall return” usually accompanies those...

  • A Letter to the New Year

    Dear Spirit of 2021,   Are you overjoyed with everyone’s eagerness to step into a new year? We are definitelyready to walk with you, anticipating joy and being relieved to think that better days mightbe ahead of us....