The Breath of God

Over this last week I have been struggling with one of the worst sinus infections I have had for many years.  In the midst of it I have become very aware of my breathing, something that when I am well I can easily take for granted.  It has been a great reminder to me that [...]

Preparing to Paint – God is at Work

We are getting ready to paint our kitchen and breakfast nook.  I am quite excited about this as we are going to redesign the breakfast nook as my office – a long overdue change as at the present time I work at our dining room table and constantly need to move everything every time we [...]

Help Prevent Burnout – Take a Cleaning Day

Today is a long overdue cleaning day for me and I am delighted that I will have several helpers to assist me.  This is no ordinary cleaning day.  We will be emptying out closets that have not been touched for years and burrowing into corners that rarely see the light of day. This kind of [...]

Dancing Outside the Box – Entertaining Angels Unaware

I am sitting at our dining room table this morning thinking about how often we miss out on the lavishness of God’s grace and mercy in our lives because we are too busy to listen or too set in our ways to notice. I have been feeling a little overwhelmed this week by the weeding [...]

God have mercy

Over the last couple of months we have been using David Adam’s The Rhythm of Life for our morning and evening prayers.  As we read the refrain Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy a couple of days ago I was suddenly overwhelmed by the impact of my awareness of God’s incredible mercy [...]

Introducing the Mustard Seed Village: A Celtic Community for Sustainable Spirituality and Sustainable Life

Introducing a dream We came to our 19th Celtic retreat on Camano Island August 14th 2010 with some very good news.  Through the hard work of our architect David Vandervort and his staff, Island County has approved our application for land use as a residential school and retreat center.  David has designed a first phase [...]

Corpus Mysticum: How the Eucharistic Image Informs My eating

This afternoon’s post was sent to me by Lisa Carlson co-Director of Aurora Care Continuum and a MDIV. Together with psychotherapist Maria-Jose. Lisa blogs at the River Beneath where they explore mental health through the perspective of poverty. I love the way Lisa grapples with her concerns about exclusion from our tables and relationship to the experience [...]

Whole Life Transformation

I have just finished reading Keith Meyer’s Whole Life Transformation:Becoming the Change Your Church Needs. It is not often that I read a book about the purpose of church life and ministry that impresses me more – partly I am sure because what Keith has to say resonates very deeply with what Tom and I [...]

Using Homegrown Stevia

Last year I posted an article about how our food choices are manipulated by the global mall.  I talked about Stevia: which is 10 times sweeter than sugar, easy to grow  and with virtually no calories.  However it was banned from the American market about the same time that Monsanto introduced its artificial sweetener aspartame [...]

Muslims & Ground Zero – Fear, Faith and Fairness

Over the last few days I have followed with concern the debate raging over whether Sufi Muslims should be allowed to build a cultural centre near Ground Zero.  The fear, hatred and misinformation that has emerged horrifies me and makes me realize how easily we believe lies that reinforce our worldview.  Hatred breeds violence and [...]