“I can’t stand your religious meetings. I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religious projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image-making. I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music. When was the last time youContinue reading “Oceans and Rivers”
Category Archives: Hope
I pledge allegiance….
When I say, “Red, white, and blue”, what emotions does that evoke in your soul? For some, this brings feelings of nostalgic patriotism with visions of a Norman Rockwell painting in classic Americana style. Maybe you think about the freedom that you or a loved one fought for, and perhaps even gave their life toContinue reading “I pledge allegiance….”
Beyond the headline
I sit here staring at an empty screen, fingers hovering above the keys hoping the words will come. I close my eyes as the images I’ve seen this past week fill my brain and churn my gut. The scenes coming to us from the other side of the world are heartbreaking, with Afghan citizens soContinue reading “Beyond the headline”
Around and Around
Probably one of my all-time favorite movie scenes is in the classic, small-town American baseball movie, The Sandlot. A group of pre-adolescent boys spend their summer days playing baseball, but in this scene they all go to a carnival together. One of the boys pulls out a big pouch of chew, they all shove aContinue reading “Around and Around”
Dare to dream
The past 18 months have challenged our world collectively more than anything else has in my lifetime. Death and disease, hate and division, hopelessness and depression all have plagued our human experience this last season of life. None of us are exempt. In many ways we are still in the middle of this war, hunkeredContinue reading “Dare to dream”
One Love One Voice 