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If it ain’t dangerous…it ain’t the wilderness!

Are you comfortable? How are you loving the others? The “THE” matters in that sentence. Read it again. The command to love others, doesn’t just mean to care and tend to our people. Loving others we are related to, or to whom we relate, is not always easy but that is the easy part of…

My Good News

My gospel includes the difference that Jesus makes in my life. Jesus is my teacher. As an apprentice, I want to do like him and be like him. The desire is to be a healing presence in the world. The goal is to love others. Every day is part of the unfolding journey of eternity.…

Getting to the Bottom

My journey this summer comes in part out of a necessity to relearn how to drink to the bottom of the cup. For more than a few years, my life has lacked a sustainable sense of rhythm. Out of an almost desperate need to succeed and please, I have lived in a frenzy of tasks…

Thin Places

A thin place is wherever you are genuinely open to encountering the ineffable Mystery. Sometimes, when our lives get too cluttered, we have to travel great distances to find a thin place. Thin places can also be in your own back yard. A thin place is where your mind rests and your soul finds solace.

Artistic Expressions

Sometimes I see something that screams out, “Paint me!” This was one of those times. This image cracks me up! As I painted this, I thought about all the Hebridean sheep I encountered on my trip to Scotland. I was told by a crofter that “sheep are crazy! Every day they wake up trying to…

A Time to be Vulnerable

By: Sharon June 26, 2020June 26, 2020

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I am no longer pastoring a flock. Or perhaps my flock is now a very different sort. But I feel much the same as I did when I first wrote this, and thought I’d share it again here. I feel like I am in the eye of a hurricane. Have you ever experienced a hurricane?…

Weary

By: Sharon November 20, 2019November 24, 2019

PonderingsHope, Peace, Polarization, Ponder, Social Capital, Thankful, Weary1 Comment

As I sit with my hot cupa mint tea, trying to get over the flu, I realize just how weary I am. It has also become acutely obvious to me just how weary our world has become. How exhausting it is to witness this mise-en-scene of polarization. The precious time wasted on the media treadmill of…

Give Way

By: Sharon June 5, 2019June 30, 2021

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I don’t have to stop striving. While driving in the UK, I’d frequently see the “Give Way” sign. It indicates that you are to allow someone or something to be or go first. It is equivalent to the “Yield” sign, in the US. Encountering “Yield” signs, I’ve often thought, “I don’t have to stop, just…