Shows
homing065 - I didn't get a mustache in NovemberI advise you to wait to click on the audio until you reach the part where I explain what it is.Dear friends,I am writing to you from my covid bed, dressed in my covid ensemble—stretch pants under sweatpants, wool socks and tall uggs; undershirt, shirt, fleece sweater. Topped off with the fluffy warm robe my mom got me 18 years ago when I was 40 weeks pregnant with my first child and we had nothing to do but buy things that made me happy and make cream puffs. Despite being worn over my clothes ev...2022-12-2201 min
homing036 - my Grandma RubyToday is my Grandma’s birthday. She would have been 94. She passed away two years ago this August, mid-Covid-lockdown. For her service, Devo and I crafted a video journey for my family of her remarkable, adventurous life from videos, photos, recordings, and letters—Ruby’s life in her own words. You can watch it here, if you’d like. It’s long but it’s really good and I’m very proud of it. The last few minutes are probably my favorite. And I just love that the final slide, the last letter from her, she signs it but somehow leaves...2022-06-2303 min
homing027 - I can't do it allWritten and recorded Jan 25, 2021.I can’t do it all. There was a Facebook thread a couple of years ago. Someone was asking for tips on meal planning. Everyone was chiming in and telling what they do and then one comment caught my eye. This friend listed the meals that she had on rotation. Her meals were all frozen and canned and packaged and processed and we all felt shocked that she was opening herself to the possibility of being trolled for her poor nutritional choices and she finished off her comment with, “and I’m fine...2022-06-1405 min
homing014 - but her penitence is realI know we’re onto the Passion week, but I’ve still got Lenten thoughts in my drafts folder. 😛Lent is a call to weep for what we could have been and are not. Lent is the grace to grieve for what we should have done and did not. Lent is the opportunity to change what we ought to change but have not. Lent is not about penance. Lent is about becoming, doing and changing whatever it is that is blocking the fullness of life in us right now.Lent is a summons to live anew.2022-04-1104 min
homing013 - sleepingOriginally published on La Sierra University Church’s 40 Days Blog. Lent, 2018. This is a reflection on the book Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren, Chapter 11, titled “Sleeping: Sabbath, Rest, and the Work of God.” All quotes in italics are from this chapter.Bedtime duty. Currently a multi-hour endeavor. Kisses, chattering, hugs disguised as full body tackles. (30 minutes). Currently, two out of four fall asleep easily and quickly. One child is willing to sleep only under precisely managed and negotiated conditions--dark room, one drink of water, one parent, preferably of the mommy kind. (30-60 minutes). One child ha...2022-04-0207 min
homing009 - symmetryLent is a call to weep for what we could have been and are not. Lent is the grace to grieve for what we should have done and did not. Lent is the opportunity to change what we ought to change but have not. Lent is not about penance. Lent is about becoming, doing and changing whatever it is that is blocking the fullness of life in us right now.
Lent is a summons to live anew.
~Sister Joan ChittisterWhen I’m asked when I’m going to sing for church again, I say, “Either when our ch...2022-03-0905 min
homing008 - early lentParenting the last two years has been an extreme sport—if by extreme you mean shoving you down an unrelenting path of fear and grief and a complete and utter routing of everything you think you know, every value you thought was immovable, every structure and milestone you assumed was part of your future, and everything you hold dear. It’s been very phoenix rising from the ashes, minus the phoenix. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit homing.subst...2022-03-0700 min
homing006 - open up the gatesLindy has been in charge of the church signboard at All Saints Episcopal this week.Never underestimate the power of God in a well-placed pun, my friends—this one lured us in to our first Ash Wednesday service. Thank you to my mom for sponsoring this outing by stepping in as a literal last minute companion and smoothie maker for Levi and Kiri.—I have long been interested in thin places — those moments ‘where the distance between heaven and earth collapses’. Thin places seem to require an alchemy of intention and attention in order to h...2022-03-0503 min
homing005 - the scale doesn't lieThe scale doesn’t lie, they say, but it doesn’t tell the truth either.The mirror will tell the truth, but it waits until I’m not looking.It waits until I rub the soap over my upper arm, over my breasts,Over the spot where my hip meets my thigh and I squeeze. Here are truths to hold on to: I am soft in places where I used to be sharp, And round in places where I used to try so hard.This is what comes of feeding myself when I’m hungry,This is...2022-03-0301 min