In some sense, I am a planner.  Over the years, I have planned vacations by doing research, booking excursions, and creating itineraries.  Most times that has made for a very pleasant and often predictable trip.  What is exhilarating I have found, though, are the in-between spaces that I build into the vacation where nothing is planned. …

There is a sense, I believe, where life can be viewed as a series of ‘leaving’ and ‘remaining.’  More to the point perhaps, things and people, come and go.  Inasmuch as we seem designed as humans to seek that which is most certain and everlasting, much of life on face value seems to be exactly the opposite of this. …

“Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place you stand is holy ground…
  I am who am…this is what you shall tell the Israelites, I AM sent me to you.”

Many times we talk about God as if God is absent or hiding.…

(Originally published February 21, 2017)

Our Great Pyrenees (Sophia) looks up at the sky every time she goes outside. We have figured out that she is looking for birds or bumblebees that either taunt her or that want her to play with them.…

Perspective is a curious thing. We all have one and, although generally speaking many of us share some perspectives, we all have different perspectives.  Curiously, we take offense many times to other perspectives.  If something that someone thinks, says, or does flies in the face of our own way of looking at things, we become irritated, adamant, and many times violent. …