Would You Be Willing to Take a Mapless Journey?

A Daily Lenten Devotion When Tom and I began dating, we quickly realized that although we had so much in common, our brains functioned in very different ways. His = logical, thoughtful, detailed, and one that finishes things. Mine = creative, oftentimes illogical and...

You Can Never Go Back to the Way It Used to Be

A Daily Lenten Devotion Can you think of a time that you were given freedom to do something you’d always really wanted to do and you LOVED it?? There was no going back to the way it used to be! When I first began my career in ministry 26 years ago I had no desire to...
Simple Awareness  Leads to Acceptance

Simple Awareness Leads to Acceptance

A Daily Lenten Devotion Walter Joseph Ciszek was a Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who conducted clandestine missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963. Fifteen of these years were spent in confinement and hard...

Psychedelics and “In and Through”!

A Daily Lenten Devotion Anytime either of my children says, “it would mean a lot to me if you would . . .” So I am determined to investigate their request. Per my son’s suggestion, I applied for a Johns Hopkins research study. He’d studied some of their research...

Saved “In” and Not “From”

Three years ago I had the opportunity to be in a clergy study led by Johns Hopkins University. It truly was one of the most transformative experiences of my entire life. Now, the study itself is a little controversial, so I am asking that you refrain from passing...