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• Advent: Beginning Again

  November 29, 2009 Advent Musing 1 This year, I've run head-on into my own limitations, and I haven't liked that. I thought I had the fall planned out so that I had a good balance of work and rest and play, but a few unexpected interruptions and too ma...

• Cenacle Retreat Center Workshop

  CENACLE RETREAT CENTER WORKSHOP 420 N. Kirkwood RoadHouston, Texas 77079 * phone 281-497-3131 From the time we moved to Houston in 1992, I have spent many meaningful hours at the Cenacle Retreat Center.   Participating in the three-year training at the...

• Loving the Scars

  September 19, 2009 Ila Procell is a new friend of mine.  She is also a massage therapist who works her therapeutic magic at a place called Chrysalis in Houston.  At the present moment, their website is undergoing what they are calling a "healthy clea...

• 9/11

  September 11, 2009 On this day five years ago, my grandson Matthew Doss was born into our family, and today we get to celebrate his birthday.  In fact, we're celebrating all weekend. His cousin, Lucas Everett, was born the next day, and he'll be here to...

• Oberammergau

  Oberammergau:  The Passion Play 2010 September 1, 2009 In 1990 I attended The Passion Play in Oberammergau, Germany, and as I walked out, I knew that I wanted to return and see it again.  The only problem was that the play is performed only every ten ...

• Family Conversations

  August 10, 2009 My whole family -- all 13 of us --  just spent a wonderful week together in Lake City, Colorado.  Our first trip to this beautiful mountain village tucked into the San Juan mountains was thirty years ago, and over the years that gorge...

• Thanks, Keith Miller!

  Monday, July 20, 2009 When I was a college student, Keith Miller spoke at Baylor University, and what he said that day set me on a l journey that has been rich and meaningful, challenging and difficult, liberating and empowering.  As soon as it was ...

• Friendship as Spiritual Practice

  The whole idea of "friendship as spiritual practice" seemed to leap off my computer screen as I was reading my friend's blog. Friendships have been sacred to me.  Making time for friends has always been a priority in my life  Engaging in conversati...

• Michael Jackson and us

  July 17, 2009 I just downloaded "We Are The World" onto my iPod and am playing it over and over on my computer.   When the song was first released, my daughters were 8, 11 and 14 and they had their version on a 45 record.  Who could have imagined the...

• A Blog, a Column, a Reflection

  July 10, 2009 What's the difference between a blog and a column? And why is your SoulWork column printed on your website, but your Growing Edges column is not? Good questions, and I've thought a lot about them.  When it comes to working a website, I'...

• Freedom For//Freedom From

  July 4, 2009 "To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom." -- Andre Gide As the American flags have gone up in my neighborhood this week,  I've been thinking about what freedom is and what it...

• Time Past/Time Present

  Thursday, June 25, 2009 Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. -- T. S. Eliot In my sophomore English class at Baylor University, Ann Miller required us to answer roll by quoting a...

• Joining the Conversation

  Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?-- Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”For the past three decades I’ve written a weekly column for a newspaper, attempting to communicate a simple truth about everyday, ordinary life. ...

• Joining the Conversation

  Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver -- “The Summer Day” Thursday, June 18, 2009 I put the date at the top of this blog. I've noticed that that is what people who write blogs do, among other thi...

• Welcome

  When people come to my home, I love that moment when I meet them at the door and welcome them into my home. I love the warm feeling of receiving family and friends and the anticipation of catching up and sharing good times together.There's also that good ...