The Day You Discover You Can Fly

The Day You Discover You Can Fly

Our capacity to simultaneously love many things and people reveals our mental and spiritual well-being. Well, Joan is out of school and enjoying her summer break.  We’re babysitting our granddaughter Madeline on Thursdays and Fridays, which is a treat.  She’s 2 ½...
The Day You Discover You Can Fly

What We Honor

We must be careful what and whom we honor, especially those of us on the privileged side of history.  Who is a white person to tell a black person he shouldn’t be offended by a statue of Robert E. Lee? I read in the paper last week that the city of New Orleans removed...
The Day You Discover You Can Fly

The First Quaker

Thomas’s insistence on experiencing the resurrected Jesus isn’t indicative of doubt.  Just the opposite.  It is an indication of his belief in the importance of personal experience.  It is never wrong to want to touch the wounds yourself.  This week, I was trying to...
The Day You Discover You Can Fly

Spiritual Amnesia

Woe to the nation who has forgotten its past injustices, its ancestor’s sin, for it will perpetuate those sins in different forms.  It will find new ways to enslave, new ways to shackle, new ways to hold others down while others rise up.     I have a friend...
The Day You Discover You Can Fly

Fences

Evil has many branches, but only one root─the belief in our superiority and the other’s inferiority.  When we believe the Christian is superior to the Jew, who is superior to the Muslim, who is superior to the atheist, we will turn a blind eye toward their oppression....