Growing Trust

Glimmers

  Dear Friends,  I’m so glad to think of you as I write this message, you warm my heart as the sun warms the land around me. I hope Spring is appearing where you are. In my world, I see snowdrops replace snow in…

March 27, 2022

Sitting in this time and place….

Glimmers

Dear Friends,                Are you a perfectionist? It was recently suggested to me that I am caught in a web of perfectionism. “How can that be?” I asked. “I’m overweight, the house is a mess, I’ve multiple unfinished…

February 25, 2022

I begin

Glimmers

Dear Friends, A new year, a new beginning, at least in my little world at Lake Beseck. The holidays, come and go with their own special rhythms, and now it is January. Here in New England, we sink into deep darkness and stunning cold…

January 16, 2022

January 6

Glimmers

  Dear Friends, As January 6, 2022 approaches, I seek to reclaim the understanding of January 6 that I used to share with my young sons – 30 plus years ago. In the Christian tradition, January 6 is Epiphany. This is the day we…

January 5, 2022

A Time for Trust…

Glimmers

  “You’ve got to trust this God who doesn’t tell you in advance what the future’s going to be. He doesn’t tell you. And that’s the contract. Once you say yes, then you begin to find out. It begins to make sense. It begins…

December 6, 2021

Attending to Loss – receiving support

Glimmers

Dear Friends, A new day…we step into the 2021 holiday season with open eyes. Last year’s November and December changed us, as we learned to cherish what we held most dear. With Thanksgiving around the corner, Christmas and Hanukkah coming soon, perhaps our hearts…

November 18, 2021

Attending to Loss – asking for prayer

Glimmers

  Dear Friends, For those of you who know me through my work in loss and grief, you know about the Land Of Loss. This image, and the travels through it, are how I understand the powerful experience of loss, change, grief and transformation.…

November 7, 2021

A Hopeful Heart

Glimmers

Dear Friends,    The light is fading here in New England, leaves are scattered everywhere and we’re entering a new season of our lives. I am grateful for the distinct seasonal changes in nature that support the shifts and movements within. As I settle…

October 29, 2021

Reclaiming Wonder

Glimmers

  Dear Friends, Loss diminishes our sense of wonder. Loss causes us to doubt that joy could ever be felt again. And if we do feel better, sometime in that far-away-future, its been so long we may not weave the strands of Loss and…

September 30, 2021

Moving Forward into Mystery

Glimmers

    Dear Friends,        I have been experiencing this Summer as a time of passage. I bet many of us have. Our year of pandemic lockdown, with the ongoing transitions and adjustments, has been so challenging. It feels like I have…

August 25, 2021