Choosing Focus in a Distracted Year
We are called to widen our vision and sharpen our focus — to join the journey of seeing what God invites us to see with...
A New Kind of New Year’s Resolution
As we stand at the edge of a new year, I invite you into a gentler kind of resolution. One rooted in New Church theology...
Choosing Joy
At Christmas we hear angels proclaim “good tidings of great joy,” yet real life often shows up heavy, complicated, and demanding. I am reflecting on...
Problems and Patterns
Friends, as we move into Christmas, I find myself laughing at my own humanity. Hanging ornaments, already thinking about putting them away, I see it...
A Simple Definition of Faith
As Advent rises again, I feel God inviting us into a season of beginnings, a kind of holy adventure where we open our hands and...
Too Much Urgency
As I sit with this theme of urgency, I feel how easily it swells up around us and crowds the quiet places where the Lord...
Letting Go of Winning
When I invite us to take winning off the table, I am asking us to breathe again and step into what Swedenborg calls “the image...
Why Smart People Feel Unhappy
In today’s 10 Minutes of Morning Calm I explore why smart people feel unhappy. Many bright souls carry that question quietly. I look at how...
