Our life and work is not just about what we do but who we are, our “beingness.” The Spiritual principle involved here is this: Who we believe ourselves to be determines what we can do, our behaviors and quality of relationships. Our self-perception of who we are will determine whether we bring a healing or…

Lovers don’t love because of the thanks they may get. Still, it’s a nice surprise when a note of appreciation comes floating into your life as unexpected as a butterfly in winter. -Erie Chapman

World leader or anonymous caregiver. Famous star or everyday person. There is not so much distance, or difference, among us in the challenges we face. The question is not how hard the problems are, but whether we find the courage to face them with love, not fear.

The reality of sacred work strikes hard in a caregiver’s encounter with the pain of others. Across America, a quiet group of charities deal with children who have been abused. It’s hard for the rest of us to see the dragon that always lives with one whose trust has been betrayed in the midst of…

On the edge of a new year, we may rejoice in the gift of our humainity and the opportunity we have to be a carrier of God’s Love. We may revel in the chance we have to weave an even richer fabric of love with which to clothe ourselves through the many encounters we will…

Take a moment to savor your hands – the sacred, storied tools of your heart and mind. What memories have created the crevasses and smooth plains of your landscape? What hopes and dreams are carried in the furrows and grip of your palms? What intentions have crossed the tips and spaces, as both giver and…

And this is the great gift we got to unwrap again yesterday. It is the joy of love – the chance to enter 2007 with a renewed sense gratitude for the gift that comes every moment of the day – and to express it to all those around us.

The world will always need God’s grace. And it will always be available for anyone wise enough to open their hearts to receive it. One day, I was speaking with Dr. Patout Burns, a professor of mine at Vanderbilt Divinity School. I was talking with him about childhood magic and childhood faith. “Yes,” he said.…

Beloved, the seeds of love planted today become the hands of love tomorrow. What we need is here now, and holds the promise of all that could be. In the clatter of the Season, through the pressure of staffing limitations and critical demands, now more than ever we pray “to be quiet in heart, and…