As always, the story of the Wise Ones, the Magi, who usher us into the season of Epiphany, intrigues me with its layers of images, its spare detail and its promise of Light at the end of the jour...
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2015/01/going-home-by-another-way/
No matter how much I can learn and practice in the dark, I long for Light to shine. Many Advents ago I went to a gathering of other in ministries of spiritual formation in the bleak midwinter. I ...
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/12/advent-blue-4-longing-for-light/
The Blueness of this Advent leaves us longing for some Joy. And Advent 3 is Gaudete or Rejoice Sunday! It is the week we are invited to savor the singing of Mary, following her ancestor Hannah: M...
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/12/advent-blue-3-longing-for-joy/
Hearts are breaking all over the world! I see them on the newscast daily, and hear them as I listen to conversations. My own heart breaks for parents, for children, for those who have been given ...
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/12/advent-blue-2-longing-for-comfort/
Some worshiping communities are using blue as the color for Advent to distinguish it from the traditional purple. The Rev. Eric J. Liles of St Paul’s Episcopal Church says this: Blue represents...
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/11/advent-blue-week-1-longing-for-god/
It is a gift to discover a companion on the spiritual journey from a tradition different from one’s own. Lisa Hendey is a Roman Catholic; I am a Presbyterian Protestant. Yet in reading her book...
I have been privileged to review two very worthy and helpful books for Advent for the Patheos Book Club. I hope you find them as provocative and charming as I have. An Invitation: Taste and See b...
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/11/two-hopes-for-advent-books-that-inspire/
Often on a journey, geographical or spiritual, I am tempted to say, “This is so beautiful; let’s just stay right here forever!” Santa Fe was one of those spots for me on this latest journey...
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/11/invitations-on-the-journey-keep-moving/
Growing up in my own tradition, I did not realize that Beauty was a spiritual quality. The verse in Scripture concerning beauty with which I was most familiar was in Proverbs 31, and it was inter...
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/amusingamma/2014/11/invitations-of-the-journey-reflecting-beauty/
As a mother of an adult daughter who does not share my spiritual practices, I am deeply comforted and delighted to read a book, such as this, in which both mother and daughter seek to keep their ...