Gratitude List Revisited

When I was sad or disgruntled as a kid, my mother used to say, “You sit down and write a list of all of the things you have to be grateful for.” It really irked me. I WAS a grateful kid but sometimes I wanted to just vent and be heard. As an adult I have...

Sidewalk Birthday Prayer

Merry and I have been friends since seminary days. From the first day I met her I was a big fan. She ate artichokes, worked in a community sheltered workshop, and was a woman seminarian. She had spent a college-year studying and traveling in Europe. I wanted to be an...

Graph-Paper Gratitude Prayer

This is a gratitude prayer for a group of friends I’ve known for thirty years. I am so blessed by their long-time and long-distant support and prayers–and the impulsive trips to movies and dinners and laughter when I go for visits. “Just as lotions...

Adelynrood Retreat in June

Adelynrood is a conference and retreat center in the woods of Byfield, MA north of Boston. It was started about a hundred years ago by the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross. The “companions” are a group of women all around the world who commit...