My journey choosing a retirement home shares similarities with mountain climbing: the doubts that puncture decisions, the fear of making a huge mistake. But Jesus told me not to be afraid, and so I kept climbing.
Soul Seeing - As we struggle both individually and collectively as a church to figure out synodality, might Henry David Thoreau be another voice we need to heed?
We're inundated with stories of meanness, but there's a huge reservoir of hope available to us. We just have to keep our eyes open for people doing good in small, everyday-but-still-important ways.
So often when we think of the Holy Spirit, it's as a dove. But the Holy Spirit can be wild and tempestuous, coming where and when it will, shaking us out of our complacency, asking us to look with fresh eyes.