Anne Lamott, in quoting a priest friend of hers named Tom, wrote, “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” But that’s the kind of god I prefer: a god of my own liking, a safe, controllable, and manageable …
“But I don’t wanna go to school today,” my grandson told me as I opened the car door for him. “I know,” I said, “some days I don’t feel like going to work, either.” We all have those days, days when we just have to slog through, days when it feels like we are trudging …
I glanced at the sign alongside the highway: “A Taste of Home.” It was an advertisement for a restaurant. “Hmm,” I thought, “really? A taste of home?” At 516, Navajoe Road, Altus, Oklahoma, where I grew up, it was a pot roast on Sundays, like only Mom could do it, cooked to perfection. If it …
It’s often in the ordinary moments of our ordinary lives that we make the most extraordinary impact on others. We should remember that on September 11, for among the many lessons we learned from that tragedy, perhaps the most lasting take-away for us it to live fully each moment we have, for life is lived moment by …
Ever since I first heard it, I’ve identified with that story about the businessman barreling through the countryside in his Lincoln Town Car. The guy is hopelessly lost, finally admits it to himself, and stops in a little one- horse-town he happens upon, pulling into a service station in the days when service stations were …