Standing with Mother Earth: Using our Voice

When we think about stewardship of the Earth, about what it means to be care-takers and gardeners, we often times ignore importance of our voice in this work.  Gardening is physical.  It uses our bodies. Today, our voice is extremely important in our work as care-takers and guardians of the Earth and its Waters. Avengers […]

Accountability strengthens Stewardship

I have talked a great deal from time to time in this blog about accountability.  Stewardship requires us to be accountable for our actions and to hold others accountable for theirs as well.  It is through accountability with each other, that we learn to become more and more responsible, become better stewards of what the […]

Risk: An invitation for growth

Our spiritual journey invites us to take risks.  We can not always play it safe.  There is no growth without risk, without adventure.  So when the time comes, Spirit will invite us to take a risk.  Sometimes that risk feels huge… Spider-man:  Homecoming Spider-man is at the top of the Washington Monument, attempting to break […]

Courage in our Spiritual Journey

We all have fears.  Some feel real, like for example, fear of spiders.  Others we attach to life situations, creating the possibility of worse-case scenario, like fear of loss of job.  What we learn as we go through life is that the spiritual journey, our life journey, requires courage.  Spirit teaches us to face and […]

Endurance on our Spiritual Journey

The spiritual journey is not a race.  It is a journey that we walk our entire lives.  Sometimes it is relaxing and we spend time slowly walking through our life enjoying and relishing the moments.  Then there are those moments when it feels like and endurance race… Spider-man: Homecoming: Having just arrived at the Washington […]