Wise and Discerning Choices During COVID-19

My wife Julie is in hospice nursing home care in late stages of Alzheimer’s.  She tested COVID positive.  We were faced with end of life choices.  (Miraculously, she survived, while 18 other residents around her died). I joined thousands of others in...

We Are Witnesses

Our email newsletter that went out on Friday, May 29, 2020. Arise in Love As each person is awakened to the sacred in all life, the world is transformed. This week we are witnessing a deep truth of our reality whispered and shouted from the streets. From our...

Be Kind to Yourself

“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between...

Honor Your Feelings

Life during a pandemic brings unexpected, unwelcome feelings.  What if we were to meet those feelings at the door and graciously “welcome and entertain them all” as Rumi suggests in “The Guest House?” This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A...

COVID 19 and the Transformative Gift of Grief

I am on Richard Rohr’s email list and receive daily opportunities to reflect on his wisdom and faith.  In a recent Daily Meditation, Richard Rohr talks about “our current global crisis as a collective initiation experience…In a time of global crisis, it may be that...