Healing Touch is an energy therapy that supports physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health through compassionate, intentional, light or near-body touch. It clears, balances, energizes […]

Did you see the cartoon where Mary instructs the magi, “The main point of this whole thing is to promote shopping!” It reminds to me […]

Scripture tells us that God is love (and lover and beloved), so it seems appropriate to sing love songs to God and also to hear […]

What DOES God, Source, Higher Power, Spirit feel like? How do we know when Mystery is actively present? My experiences of Presence have been few, […]

I became a Quaker in desperation, having ruined my ability to worship in the mainline Protestant churches that raised and shaped me. I was baptized […]

I love to read Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz Webber. She is earthy and organic and gritty and real in her preaching and writing. (Get her […]

I never get tired of watching the IKEA commercial for “Start the Car!!!!!”. One only has to mention this and you know exactly what I […]

We all know that bees play an important role in plant pollination. Bees either focus on gathering nectar or on gathering pollen depending on demand.. […]

A couple of Sundays ago during children’s time I gathered the youth around me and invited them to sing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer…well two […]

Yesterday was a day of tears and remembering. A family in our congregation for the 12th year, I believe, donated a huge 12-15ft Christmas tree […]

The final verse of the song we’ve been praying together: Teach, me God, to know you, hear you when you speak, see you in my […]

From ‘Teach Me, God, to Wonder’. Words by Walter Farquharson and translation by Étienne de Payer. Let me, God, be ready, let me be awake, […]

We continue with the words of Walter Farquharson this morning… Let me, God, be open let me loving be; let your world of people speak […]

Here is the refrain from Teach Me, God, to Wonder: Praise to you be given, love for you be lived, life be celebrated, joy you […]

Yesterday, I was given a beautiful gift. It’s a framed copy of the words to a hymn by Walter Farquarson and translated by Étienne de […]

Advent—my favourite season of the church year. Today, we will light our second Advent candle. I share with you today a Celtic prayer. Days of […]

In writing about the contemplative life, Sr. Joan Chittester said: “The major concern with this lifestyle is the human tendency to turn in on ourselves […]