Unfolding Nature of Life
Remember the origami paper game we played as kids? We would fold a piece of paper a certain way and label the various folds with numbers and colors. A friend would insert his or her fingers into the underside of the folds, we would ask a question (like does Mary or John like me – something quite meaningful to children), and then we would choose one of the numbers labeled on the outer folds. The friend would then move the device that parti

The Merton Prayer – so right on
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will always lead me by the right r

Life is like Chopin’s Nocturne no. 8
While listening to classical music on NPR radio the other day, I suddenly noticed how Chopin’s nocturne no. 8 so resembled life itself. This creation is pleasant and serene – there are intense moments of joy; all is going well…  if you could just stay here to bathe in such beauty. But then, midway through the piece and without much warning, dissonance enters.  There is a period of unstable, hard to bear, almost overwhelming sound. If y

Pink Dragon Ladies write a book
Paddling Against the Current is a book recently published by a dragon boat team of breast cancer survivors who push beyond the fears and potential limitations of a cancer diagnosis. Last year I became a member of The Pink Dragon Ladies paddling team in Tampa, Florida. The team is a courageous and amazing group of women (all breast cancer survivors, some still in treatment) who train and compete in dragon boat races. Our amazing win in the Windsor, Ontario competition

You Are Enough
I was forever changed by an intensely memorable experience early in my hospital chaplain career. From it, I learned that “ I am enough.”  And you too are enough. Mr. Morales was an elderly man with end stage colon cancer. This man was isolated in so many ways; his cancer had spread to other parts of his body leaving him severely disfigured including his face, he was in ICU, and wit