This morning was a perfect morning for a run.The sun was shining.The air was cool with an early fall crispness.I dirt road on which I was running paralleled the lake which reflected the fall colors like a mirror in the early morning stillness.It saw … [Read more]
Courage to Fail
Several days ago I watched a young mom with a toddler who was just learning to walk. The child would take a few steps and then fall down. The mom laughing with joy would then swoop the child up and give her child a kiss. She would put her child … [Read more]
Grace…
I like this word.I like what it connotes and what images it brings to mind for me.Openness.Acceptance.A comfortableness in one’s own skin - as in gracefulness. Grace has something to do with openness.Openness to the people around me and to the … [Read more]
Dangerous Questions
I jotted down the first notes for the sermon this morning a couple of weeks ago. Long before that crazy video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad went viral in the Arab world becoming the spark which ignited angry demonstrations that, in recent days, … [Read more]
Learning to Speak Up
A video mocking the Prophet Muhammad goes viral.Angry Muslims protest in the street their images splashed across the television screen. And I sit here reading Eboo Patel's new book Sacred Ground. In it I come across this sentence which I underlined … [Read more]
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
How many of you remember your first writing assignment when you returned to school in the fall being What I Did On My Summer Vacation? Maybe it is one of those tricks my mind plays as I reconstruct memories of growing up, but in that narrative of … [Read more]
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