loss

The Turning Seasons of the Spirit

Sep 12, 2021

Aging and Staging, Beloved Community, Holidays and Holy Days, Interdependent Web of All Existence, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Wellness

autumn, COVID-19, grief, Let Your Life Speak, living deliberately, loss, metaphors for life, Parker Palmer, spring, summer, winter

Metaphors are powerful. Entire cultures fall under their sway. They can put us to sleep, and even as we think we are spiritually and intellectually awake, we are snoring our lives away. It is said that the master metaphor of our culture is the American Dream fantasy of a permanent blue-sky season for busyness and…
The Thanksgiving Wish

Nov 22, 2020

Aging and Staging, Beloved Community, Holidays and Holy Days, Sermon, Spirituality

grief, Hope, loss, love, Thanksgiving

Today’s story, “A Thanksgiving Wish,” is so beautiful for so many reasons. All the themes it plays out: –The theme of the middle class style of being independent and in your own family bubble and not having to rely on anyone beyond that bubble. But then a perfect storm of some kind happens, and you…