

Lent Day 37: Golf Is a Sport That Helps Us Learn to Live Life
“Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to...


Lent 2025 Day 36: The Ticket to Ride
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” —Maya Angelou My 5-year high school reunion. I think I'm 23 here. Let...


Lent 2025 Day 36: No One Should Settle
Remember that scene from Sleepless in Seattle when Meg Ryan’s character, Annie, tells Walter she’s developed feelings for Sam...


Lent 2025 Day 30: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
"Check yourself. Sometimes you are the toxic person. Sometimes you are the mean, negative person you’re looking to push away. Sometimes...


Lent 2025 Day 29: Play the Ball Where It Lies
"Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots—but you have...


Fifth Sunday of Lent: Sacred Bodies, Misunderstood Hearts
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding… so must you know pain.” – Khalil Gibran It’s fascinating how...


Lent Day 27: Seeing Clearly, Becoming Whole
"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." – Anaïs Nin When I started writing these Lenten reflections, I didn’t really...


Lent 2025 Day 26: The Cup of Love, Broken Expectations & Brave Endings
“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.” – Benjamin Franklin I had an Oprah “A-ha”...


Lent Day 25: The Chains of the Familiar, the Promise of the Unknown
"Man craves winter in summer, and when winter comes, he likes it not, For he is never content with any state [of things], neither with...


Lent 2025 Day 24: Leadership, Integrity & the Country We Deserve
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." – Thomas Jefferson Waking up...