An entire storytelling/movie genre is devoted to suspense. That avid anticipation, tinged with excitement or fear, is such a compelling feeling that we go out of our way to get it. Do you enjoy suspense? How do you open yourself to surprise?
Read MoreMost of us live in a place called "Elsewhere," living out our lives focused on what is missing, what needs fixing, or on a future dream. What happens when you ask yourself, sincerely, and with genuine curiosity: What blessings are going on in the background of my life? And, even if you did not have an answer, what if you held that attitude as you went through the day?
Read MoreThis is an excerpt from the introduction to "Cultivation," a section of my new book of poetry, Bearing Witness. Bearing witness is a process for transforming experience into wisdom and cultivation is a step in that process. Cultivation is the effort of taking the raw material from presence, engagement, and reflection and shaping it into a finished product.
Read More2018--quite a year; but in what way could all the chaos actually be part of a step in our transformation?
Read MoreWhat is Christmas? Some days have deep grooves in our collective mind, holding mythic dreams and apocryphal stories, dubious in fact while truthful in form. What we celebrate today, that an eternal God could be born into a mortal body...
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