Category: Sacred Ordinary
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When Hope Feels Impossible
From bones at Solferino to smoke over the Pentagon to seventy years of marriage, this essay wrestles with cruelty, grief, and the persistence of hope.
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The Sweaty Guy Always Finds Me
From the yoga mat to the grocery line, small torments test our patience daily. This reflection weaves humor and Psalm 51 into a reminder that even petty frustrations can open us to a clean heart.
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Four Minutes, Fifteen Years
From a Sunday night concert without dance partners to Monday’s high school registration to Tuesday’s OR vigil, three quiet days reveal the thresholds of parenthood and the way of everything.
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Off the News. On the Ground.
I stepped away from the news nearly thirty years ago, out of survival. This is the story of what I found instead: presence, quiet grace, and the slow tending of what matters most.
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Cow Tail Theology: Mending What Matters Before the Lights Go Out
After a long day of high-stakes leadership decisions, the most important thing was sewing the tail back on my son’s cow costume. This reflection holds space for quiet repairs, divine mending, and the truth that some moments stitch us back together.
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When You Realize You’re the One Who Remembers
We find oourselves seated at the head of the table and do not recall being invited. This is not nostalgia. It is vocation.
Captain Reverend Mother 