This morning on Easter Monday, my heart is full of gratitude for the awe-filled and soul-nourishing celebrations of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. When I first started writing reflections in journals years ago, the entries were mostly gratitude lists. I would try to end the day by listing five things for which I was grateful. … More Easter Joy: The Gift of Laughter
Easter is a season of new life. There is a reason Christians celebrate Easter in the springtime, the season of new plant and animal life. For there to be “new life,” there must be a death that precedes it. Like the tulip, unless the flower dies and the nourishment recedes into the bulb, there can … More Roll Away the Stone
It’s almost spring! The morning temperatures are consistently mild enough now for reflection and prayer from my rocking chair on the lanai. On days like today when I have no particular commitments other than laundry and groceries, I can spend as much time as I like in this heavenly spot. During this time of Lent, … More Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Mark Twain wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Travel has given me a broader and more compassionate view … More What Travel Has Taught Me
Photography and Writing as Spiritual Practices
Photography and Writing as Spiritual Practices
Photography and Writing as Spiritual Practices
The intersection of faith and life.
The world around through my camera's lens
Discovering the Divine in the Everyday
