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Giving Way Rather than Giving Up: My Invitation for Lent

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Do You Have A To-Be List?

In early January, I spent some time discerning my top priorities for the year. The result was a list of 4 To-Do’s and 4 To-Be’s for 2021....

bethbooram

Feb 17

Giving Way Rather than Giving Up: My Invitation for Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday, the commencement of Lent, when people talk about what they’re “giving up.” I was inspired this week to consider a...

bethbooram

Feb 15

Is there a Rx for the Winter/Covid Blues?

"Halloween 2020," circa 1977 I must have been nine or ten years old when I came home from school one day to find my mom crying. I...

Why We Need Spiritual Direction-More than Ever!

bethbooram

Jan 31

Why We Need Spiritual Direction-More than Ever!

A good part of my work week is spent sitting in a chair, turned toward another, prayerfully listening to this person convey what he or...

The Inevitability of Participating in Life and Death

Dave Booram

Jan 24

The Inevitability of Participating in Life and Death

As I walked by our second-floor window this morning, I looked down and saw a lone, male cardinal scratching through our near-empty feed...

Dave Booram

Jan 21

A Different Sower, A Different Seed

This morning my gospel reading was Jesus’ parable of the sower and the four soils. How apropos! Yesterday, we witnessed in Joe Biden a...

Dave Booram

Jan 16

10 Gifts All Kids Need to Flourish

As I spent time around the table and on the floor playing with my grandchildren this holiday season, I found myself reflecting on...

Dave Booram

Jan 7

In Need of Healthy Shame

We have just entered the season of Epiphany in the Christian calendar. One central story of this period is that of the Magi, those...

bethbooram

Jan 3

FLOW: My Word-for-the-Year 2021

I’ve engaged an end-of-the-year review that’s helped me dig down deep into myself, into my experience of 2020 and what I hope for in...

Dave Booram

Dec 26, 2020

Bongo’s Final Words to Me

Our dear Bongo - sweet pup, best friend, furry uncle and co-host at Fall Creek Abbey - left us this Christmas Eve. He was just shy of 16...

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