300 words a day

All the time we hear, “Don’t do that.” It starts when we are little. I hear it by the beds of elderly people  And we hear it from God.  At least we think we hear it from God. When the serpent asks Eve about being able to eat from all the trees, she replies with […]

On the bulletin board above my desk is a card. I wrote it sometime mid-2022. It says, “Rather than saying ‘do this’, say ‘try this.’” I wrote it and then went on with my work, which includes saying things to people. I often tell people what to do. More accurately, I write and speak in […]

God. The year is halfway done.The calendar year, anyway. Almost, anyway. And some of us can barely remember the beginning of this year. There has been death or diagnoses,there has been over-commitment or under-valuationof our ideas or belongings or energy or selves. There were more good intentions than capacity to follow through. We are weary, […]

God. It’s been a long week. We know that it’s been exactly the same 168 hours that every week has, but you know that the feeling of time is different than the counting of time. You know that minutes spent waiting for answers are longer than days spent living with the answers. Paul talks about […]

Specificity counts. Though I may say the same thing to every family who has lost a loved one, it counts that I say it to each family. And in my best moments, though I say things to all the people in the room, it often matters that I speak to each person in the room. […]