What comes to your mind with this emphasis? Any number of thoughts, images, feelings, or names may come to mind as you read or hear the word.

…Shakespeare, Dickinson, Angelo, Blake…Psalms and so on? And often saying “I have no idea what I just read or heard” but there is feeling…

How are your days of rest going so far this year? What is calling your attention during (Sabbath) rest? 

Have you ever considered PLAY as an important part of your Sabbath rest?

A few months ago, I shared another new thing: the practice of word shift. I was introduced to this practice through spiritual direction. Spiritual direction has been a place of opening up my life to “God’s wide open spaces. His expansive grace, love, and abundance.” Although this new thing began taking formation some time ago, it seems fitting for the renewing ways…

“Day by day” is a phrase you’ll often hear me say. 

A friend recently asked me why I use it so often, especially when asked “How are you doing?” 

I had an answer but it was a long one…