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Being Sent by Jesus to Bring Life to My City
A Meditation for our eleventh week of Ordinary Time in 2026 As Jesus began His public ministry, He made the invitation to some people to follow Him and become His disciples. We know of the twelve, but there were many, many more. There were women who were not counted, and there was also the story…
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The Core of our Triune God is Relationship
It is no surprise that one way that the love of God is expressed is through a call to go and share His love with others. Jesus tells his disciples to do this in a passage known to many as the Great Commission. I have an interesting relationship with this passage. When I was still…
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Embodying the Love of Christ in my City
I’m called to embody the life and love of Christ in my context. A part of that is loving my neighbors and working to make life better for them. It’s loving and tending to creation, the creation God called good. It’s going to the hurting, outcast, and oppressed, and sitting with them. Seeing them. Loving…
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In the Boundlessness the Spirit Waits for Me
The incarnation of God in Christ ascended to be with the Father, and the Holy Spirit was sent. The Holy Spirit is like Jesus and is the full divinity of God. Yet, the Spirit of God has come to dwell within me. This is a new kind of presence with God. It is far more…
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Choosing to Find Simplicity with Contentment
I am reminded of the practices of contentment and gratitude. Gratitude comes fairly easy to me. I am genuinely grateful for what I have in this life, even down to the dwindling drawing pencil that I love, that I got years ago at an art store. Contentment is another matter. I find myself struggling with…
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To Know Someone Means to Journey Together
I love being present with people I love and care for. Yet, knowing someone is more active than being present. To know someone means to journey through life together, to experience a wide variety of things together, and to listen and share.
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In Christ, Love Finds a Way
I live in a world that feels evermore driven by fear. More than a decade ago there was the fad of ‘FOMO’. Each year since, it feels like fear keeps pushing politics and civic life to greater extremes. In his first letter, Peter reminds us, “do not fear what they fear, and do not be…
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Jesus is the Horizon of my Life and Faith
One of the most frustrating things that Jesus said is “Do not let your hearts be troubled.” Oh, okay – now that I’m untroubled… let me get on with the work of Your love, Your hope, and Your Kingdom. Reading this passage in John 14 today, I felt myself get frustrated and maybe even angry…
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Hearing Jesus through the Noise in my Life
The world around me is swirling, and it feels so hard right now to make the time and calm my mind. Yet, alongside the noise life may scream, there is always a voice of life and peace.
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Jesus Looks on me with Compassion and Love
Our earliest monastic siblings from the deserts of Egypt were pursuing a life of perfection in Christ. It is far easier to be present with Jesus when I am living like Him. A perfect Christian life would be one where I live, move, feel, and breathe just like Jesus…. So I find myself in love…
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Christ’s Peace Invites us into Life
A Meditation for our second week of Eastertide in 2026 What I would give to hear the risen Jesus say to me, “Peace be with you”. This is how Jesus greeted the disciples after His resurrection. In the darkness of that day, He appeared to them where they had locked themselves away. He said it…
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Jesus is Going to those He Loves
In the early hours of Easter morning, her world crumbled ever further. Not only had Mary Magdalene watched Jesus be tried, crucified, and buried – now He had been taken from where she had prepared His body and laid Him to rest. Just think of her standing there in the cool of the morning as…
