So many of life’s deepest hardships are too intimate and unique to fully understand unless we commit to learning about one another’s innermost stories.  This Sunday, we explore the power of literature as a tool towards understanding. We will explore morals through wisdom tales, examine poverty and addiction through a work of fiction, and delve into hardships of racism through the lens…

What if there is no afterlife, what if our brief time in this realm is all we have? Well, perhaps we live on through the memories of our beloveds, through our legacy, through our descendants.   What if humanity ultimately meets its own demise? Well, we are held in the interdependent web of life that weaves throughout millennia, shifting and changing, each life…

And yet what this story clearly articulates is a tale of generosity. All they needed was a simple reminder, an invitation, and this community steeped in love and gratitude came together in acts of generosity that sustained the whole – one humble offering at a time, they created something nourishing and life-giving.[1] I wonder, in exchange for offering cabbage, as the villagers…

Beauty surrounds us – and in noticing, we enter a sacred act of what I call prayer – connecting what we hold within to all of that which is beyond. We pray to pebbles, to dandelions, to the irises simply by pausing in appreciation, by offering an intentional moment of gratitude, by allowing a space for the love and the wonder and…

    Love is inherent in each of us. This Sunday, we explore love, not as something we direct at or receive from one another, but as a state of being in the world.  With pure love, our actions are guided, not with an expectation of anything in return, but simply to offer goodness and beauty to all that surrounds us.  Instead of responding to others…