Where Faith Meets Life

Haven’t you had at least a moment when you dreamed of escaping the pressures of daily life to live in a Monastery, cave or on an isolated mountain top?  I know I have.  But is that what we really want?  More importantly is that what we need? It’s when our faith is put to theContinue reading “Where Faith Meets Life”

What are you giving up for Lent?

  This was a common question during my college years.  Wonderful meals of fish, homemade macaroni and cheese, veggie plates and salads meant not eating red meat during Lent wasn’t much of a sacrifice in our cafeteria.  Students also joked about giving up things they didn’t do anyway.   Our campus chaplain suggested our sacrificeContinue reading “What are you giving up for Lent?”

Prayer for Protection

Prayer for Protection is a poem written by Unity minister James Dillet Freeman for all soldiers during World War II.  It was also carried into space by astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the first manned moon landing in 1969. Individuals and churches use this beloved prayer as a reminder that wherever we go, God is.  OftenContinue reading “Prayer for Protection”

Thought for Today

“The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before… What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft ofContinue reading “Thought for Today”