What “toast, boast, and oath” might you offer this January?

The journey toward inner truth is too taxing to be made solo.

We must unstick our minds if we want to bring change into the world.

Ultimately it will be the small things that unite us...

Life doesn't have to be ever-upward in order to be well-lived.

Advent encourages us to be present in each moment of waiting.

When the holy month of Ramadan approaches, it becomes a beautiful reminder to return to myself.

I want to be shaped in a way that lets me serve the eternal.

I believe in your grace and protection and cannot imagine them slipping through the cracks.

The words we cast to fill the silence left by one we loved never are enough.

Spirit of Life and Love, help me to notice when I am hooked.

Maybe hope is fleeting. It leaves and returns again; there’s beauty in its impermanence.

"Most of us have been led to believe that prophets 'foretell' the future. That is true, and it is also misleading. It is not the point here. Prophets are seers of the big patterns; they see what is always and forever true. Prophets like Isaiah know how God acts by watching and listening, and they...

The wilderness alongside every moment, sprawling in each direction, holds more than the silence that theologians imagine of God.

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center down. And when your...

Everything is about to change. And it already has. It will be. It was. It is. The dawn you eagerly await to end the long, cold darkness is already full sun far off in the east. Yet even after light’s return spring is months away. Thirty long years pass after His birth before the Messiah comes.

A white woman pulled over and ran over to me with a shopping bag. As I looked down at the bag, I had very mixed emotions.

"We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change."...

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is...

People move places for jobs, relations, opportunities, escape, hindering our ability to put down new roots. And yet, we carry a constancy: the still, quiet voice within.