The word gathering is defined by Merriam-Webster as assembly, abscess, collecting of food or raw materials from the wild, collection, or compilation. While technically correct, this definition does not express the depth of what gathering has the potential to achieve. And while the word gathering does not require a collection of people or food, I’ve…
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. Ann Voskamp Are we brave enough to travel…
Laura Ingalls Wilder or Jane Austin? Log cabin set in the American prairies or victorian mansion in the English countryside? Two very different settings, and yet I have always found a love for both. There is something so wonderful about getting lost in someone else’s story, set in a different time in history. There is…
As we attempt this journey to return to pre-pandemic “normal,” it seems that the rhythms that once worked are no longer working for many of us. Have you felt it? This push to return to “normal,” only to find the things that have returned to what was, feel far from normal? Perhaps it is because,…
A great deal of our lives is made up of tasks. The little details and habits of daily life, carried out with a sense of pleasure and beauty, can be just as important to us as the tea ceremony is to the Japanese. The way you handle the details of a meal or a bath,…
Jewish writer Avram Davis said, “We are what we practice. If we become angry a lot, then essentially, we are practicing anger. And we get quite good at it. Conversely, if we practice being joyful, then a joyful person is what we become.” The reality is we are practicing every single day the kind of…
