Monday Message

National Hospice and Palliative Care month helps us to recognize that hospice care not only is a gift to those who receive it, but to the entire community. Walking with those who are facing life-limiting illness... Read More

It’s easy to think that if we only had more happiness in our lives, we would be grateful. But the reality is, it is gratitude that opens the doors of our heart to happiness. As one American author puts it,... Read More

American Philosopher and Psychologist William James once said, “Act as if what you do makes a difference. IT DOES.” This is true in our families, in our circle of friends, in the workplace, in our social media... Read More

I remember visiting a dear soul at her bedside a week before she died. She was a person of deep faith and we had enjoyed many conversations as she came to terms with her death and looked back over her life. But that... Read More

​During our last Call to Connect, Director of Social Work Practice, Ronnie Featherstone shared this poem for a moment of inspiration. “In the Time of Pandemic” by Kitty O’Meara And the people stayed home. And... Read More

Poets help us to see beauty and mystery that we might otherwise walk right by without noticing. They do the work of exploring and articulating feelings and experiences which so often open our own hearts to depths of... Read More

If we hope to achieve some level of mutual understanding and shared sense of destiny, we must on a fundamental level, challenge the illusion of our separateness and embrace the fact that our fates and our fortunes... Read More

Poet and theologian Frederick Buechner writes words of wisdom for us that still resonate today, “Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less in the... Read More

It is easy to become so caught up in how people respond to the things we do that we are robbed of the fulfillment that came from doing them.  Mother Theresa knew a little something about that. She gives us this... Read More

The daily practice of gratitude involves a conscious choice to swim against the current of our natural human tendency to take things for granted. To walk by natural beauty without so much as a pause of appreciation.... Read More

What a wonderful and powerful thing hope is. Undeterred by those forces which seek to thwart the upward rise of the soul, it forges forward with the vision firmly in view of what could be, what should be. May we find... Read More

In a conversation with a colleague, we both shared how connecting with beauty in nature has been such an important part of staying grounded recently. There is something about trees waving in the wind and waves... Read More