Matter Matters Christianity, my particular path of devotion and training, has as it’s root an incarnational God. YHWH deigned to come to earth as a body in the form of the Jewish Rabbi Jesus— identifying with the human experience of joy and suffering, sorrow and delight. The Biblical creation story has fallible human bodies made … Continue reading In Soul Tending….Matter Matters

Soul tending is not for the faint of heart. It takes time. It is a slower rhythm than our daily, accelerated chronos time. It is liminal time. Observation is required—an intimacy between the observer and the soul observed. The effects are cumulative. Wonder. Delight. Joy. A new surge of gratitude. Gordon and Lorene are my … Continue reading The Slow Bloom of Soul Tending

In her timely book, Anita Amstutz, pastor, beekeeper and desert dweller, describes Soul Tending as a spiritual biography. It is “a story of my own wrestling with balance in my work life…how I found the Sabbath welcome of ‘ceasing work’ to be a solace in that dry, droughty space between creativity and overwork/soul weariness”. We … Continue reading Praise for Soul Tending