This article is reposted from its first publication in 2009. We’ve found these reflections to have lasting relevance, and to be well worth revisiting. In Washington DC, it is only a matter of time before the kind woman standing next to me at a cocktail party will turn from talking with my husband and ask the inevitable,...
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“…what fidelity is meant to protect is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen and what we desire are the same.” -Wendell Berry, The Body and The Earth June seems an optimal time to talk about fidelity. It is, after all, both the peak and prompt of wedding season, when sunshine and fresh...
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Several months ago I was invited to lead a breakout seminar at a conference on calling and the common good, offering some reflections about what it looks like to take up calling across all of life, but especially with a view to the ordinary, unsexy realities of daily life. I smiled when I arrived at...
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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela It is hard to go very far in conversations about vocation without very quickly getting tripped up on language. Discussion about a person’s longing...
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One day, John knew, Heaven would come down and mend God’s broken world and make it our true, perfect home once again. And he knew, in some mysterious way that would be hard to explain, that everything was going to be wonderful for once having been so sad. – Revelation 21, 22 as told in The...
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The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses / they are not phantasms / they have weight and form and location…” –Walt Whitman, To Think of Time If ever I came to the blank page with some legitimate expertise on a subject, I hope ordinariness might be it. I have been...
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