“Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss all the joy is to miss all.” -Robert Louis Stevenson. It all started with three pitiful brown bananas. They sat, knowing they weren’t going to get eaten. No one wanted them now–it was even too late to blend them […]
Permission to Grieve
“We can obey commandments, believe doctrines, and attend church services all our lives and still daily lose our souls if we run from the necessary cycle of loss and renewal.” Richard Rohr At the first stroke of the guitar on our live Facebook chapel, tears filled my eyes. It was unexpected and caught me off […]
Gift of Time
“Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from our life. Hurry and Love are incompatible.” Before all of this Covid-19 thing started to happen, I was reading a book called “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry” by John Mark Comer. It was hitting my core so strongly that I wrote a line from it on my chalkboard in our kitchen. […]
Educating the Whole Person
In 50 years, about a third of the jobs people currently hold in the United States will be automated. One in three people will be replaced at their job by a robot. At the same time, technological advancement will become such that many of the current resources whose scarcity define our existence (food, medical care, […]
AS Campus Meetings
The first time I walked onto the campus of Ambleside Ocala (AS), I knew very little about the school. I enjoyed the morning assembly and the quiet beauty of the stone courtyard surrounded by picturesque windows and blooming flowers. After that short time on campus, I could sense that I was walking out of a […]