I am enrolled in a class on spirituality. On the evening in question one of our teachers was explaining the Liturgy of the Hours – a sequence of prayers promoted by the Roman Catholic Church, and still practiced by some monastic communities. These prayers, or
1st Corinthians 2:15 reads, “But those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are judged by no one.” I interpret that to mean as long as I am a believer in the spirit or am working toward that spirit, then I must be on
As I prepare to enter my mid-40s, my waist seems to have a mind of its own. I eat just like I’ve always eaten, yet my waist seems to grow at a faster pace than it did in my 30s. When asked what I wanted
They say that cleanliness is next to godliness, and as I crawl the perimeters of every room in my house – pushing a bucket of soap suds and scrubbing baseboards – I hope somehow they’re right. Actually, there on my knees behind the sofa, I
After a long, hard day of dealing with bosses, co-workers, traffic, children, etc., many of us come home feeling tired. We feel the film of the world around us on our bodies. Some of us start to itch. Any human being knows what it feels
Ever feel like you just don’t know where that heart went? How easy it seems for us to lose the perspective of what is left of us being right and good. All of us feel like we give of ourselves to our job, our partner,
I have said it many times, but I feel it always bears repeating, and at this time it seems particularly appropriate: there is never a need to wonder where God is, or to engage in a desperate search for God. God has this uncanny ability
Popes and presidents, archbishops, governors and legislators, Neo-Nazi skinheads in Wyoming or Idaho, Baptist fundamentalists in Virginia and even African Methodist Episcopal Reverend Doctors in Boston, Massachusetts — We’ve heard what they would do regarding “Gay Marriage.” However, because the opponents of gay and lesbian
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is
“I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.” -John 14:27 I recall the exact moment I decided to come out as a lesbian. I was working late at night