All the Wonders

SoulCollage® card of mom / Community Suit* Mom would have been 90 years old today. She left us in 1983 -- so long ago! As I think of the...

Around this time 40 years ago (May of 1984), the General Conference of The United Methodist Church was meeting in Baltimore, MD. On the...

draft of Weavings Logo, 1985 Ever since I did my stint cleaning out boxes and files in the basement of The Upper Room, I’ve been...

Innisfree, 1950s One of the treasures of the Colorado cabin is a log that was started by our parents to record the activities of each...

So many people have lost so much this year. I've been fortunate in many ways. I have kept my job. I've not lost any friends or family to...

I remember you, Grandpa Tom. Resilience forged in World Wars and dust bowls. Kindness shaped by love and generosity. Faith cultivated in...

Remembering my saints this weekend. On All Saints' Day, it is not just the saints of the church that we should remember in our prayers,...

I have been content to be here in the mountains. Watching, walking, writing. What a gift to get away, to hold solitude. To sleep and wake...

I've loved Advent as long as I can remember. And running across this photo of me, face to face with the Nativity set let me see the gift...

Since he passed away on Monday, I’ve been thinking with gratitude about the many ways that Don Beisswenger shaped my life. I moved to...

O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water....

I came home today and Started looking through boxes of photographs. I was looking for the photo of you and me At the United Methodist...

I pulled this blessing out of my book. I'm needing it today on this anniversary of my dad's death. Bless all who mourn today. You sit in...

On the Ireland Pilgrimage in July, 2017, we visited the ruins of the monastic community of Glendalough. There in the 6th and 7th century,...

I first rode a horse when I was in early elementary school. It was a pony owned by a family in our church. I was hooked and asked, "Dad,...

I was a young adult preparing to visit Ireland when my great aunt Eileen shared this picture with me. Aunt Eileen had inherited the photo...

I sit and write, Preparing to go home To the place of my birth, my nurturing, To Oklahoma, landscape of my heart. Big sky and brilliant...

Christmas Eve, Holy night. Memories creep into My mind. Smells of evergreen And candles, lit. The worn, waxed chancel In a church...

Grief sneaks up on me, cunningly disguising itself so I can't see it coming. Or maybe I see through its costumes and just don't want to...

I am thinking of you today, Dad, On this day when you crossed through the thin space To join the saints who had preceded you: Mom, Holt,...