Do not cling…

A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends, and HAPPY SPRING!  In my little corner of the world, the earth has turned. The air drifts the delicate scent of flowering dogwoods. My son is making bouquets of stray…

“Everything is your teacher” and the transformative journey…

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Taking a stand in love…

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The Power of Pausing…

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It’s All A Gift…

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The Gears of Progress

A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends ~ Here is your Monday Manna….on a Tuesday. This is a good exercise in the “good enough.” When things didn’t come together to send this out yesterday, my temptation told…

Open Hands for the Thresholds…

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Ask where it hurts…

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What Matters

A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends ~  What matters? What really matters?  I’ve been confronted with this question—and the challenge to answer it—in various forms and at numerous times in recent months. Perhaps one of the…

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