Stewardship: Being Custodians

Stewardship means experiencing everything as gifted to us by the Sacred.  Everything!  This includes our skills, abilities, talents, spiritual gifts, qualities, financial resources, Land, food, shelter, community, family, friends, blessings, abundance, hopes and desires, goals and accomplishments.  All of it has been gifted and supported by the presence and work of the Sacred.  Stewardship invites […]

Stewardship as a lifestyle

Stewardship is a word we throw around every Fall in churches.  We talk about stewardship at the time of the year when we are creating our church budgets and asking people to pledge their giving for the next year.  We have narrowed stewardship down to dollars.  Because of that, often times we do not want […]

Spirit’s Holds us Accountable

As I wrote about in the personal accountability series with Thor, Loki and Odin, personal accountability and integrity are key elements in our spiritual journey.  If we do not hold ourselves accountable, Spirit will… Spider-man: Homecoming Spider-man saved the day in Washington, DC saving his friends.  He rose to new heights in his school.  Spider-man […]

Grace: The gift of Unconditional Love

As I wrote yesterday, God’s grace flows freely to us.  God loves us unconditionally.   Even in the midst of holding us accountable, even in the midst of the wrathful-oriented God, the God of tough love, grace and mercy and unconditional Love are always present.  In Spider-man: Homecoming, it is Aunt May who offers it… […]

The mountaintop fall…

We like to think that we can stay on the mountaintop, on the spiritual high.  We are not meant to.  The mountaintop moments encourage us, instill hope back in us for when we are not on the mountain tops.  The mountaintop moments give us the opportunity to feel success, to breathe in victor, to see […]