When we hear news about our world, many times it is taken as simply information or data.  This information is about something that has happened or someone who has done something.  There is an implicit alterity or otherness about the information. …

The reality of suffering is undeniable.  It comes in many shapes and forms.  It is physical, mental, spiritual, emotional.  It can come from what we may consider to be natural causes, or it can be the result of people’s actions and behaviors. …

I wonder what it was like to sit there with Jesus and listen to him speak at great length about his relationship with his Father, and how that same relationship was granted the disciples. The intimacy and power of the words coming from him must have been overwhelming and actually quite confusing. …

“For us, life come and goes and does not stop; we exist within this dynamism, and live in its passing.”  – Raimon Panikkar

There is a sense of passing things on, i.e., transmission going on in Jesus’ long discourse with his disciples in John the evangelist’s gospel. …

The tag team blooming festival of spring is in full swing all over in the South!  Strolling through the front yard in the mornings provides an environment of centering, stillness and beauty as the day opens up!  It’s amazing to me how just a few moments in the yard, enjoying both the sights and fragrances of newness can not only grant the energy to go forward into the day, but also provides a grand stage that can come along with me and frame all that may happen in the hours of the day with a tone that will keep me breathing in a Space of connectedness to a much wider arena than just the often small and seemingly constricting areas that I may find myself in as the day passes. …