Thought I’d give you some preparation time. Ash Wednesday is in one week and the forty days of Lent begin. The Hubbell Pew started as a Lenten discipline fifteen years ago since I had for decades failed in my effort to give up oatmeal-raisin cookies for Lent. I used as my inspiration in the early…
The Moment of Choice and Action
The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action, Simone de Beauvoir. I came across Simone’s words this weekend. What a wonderful outlook for the present and the moment. How often do you sit and wonder how the choices we make in the present liberate the future from the past…
Boats Against The Current
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. The words above are the last line in Fitzgerald’s classic and find Nick returning to the theme of the significance of the past to dreams of the future. He focuses on the struggle of human beings…
Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again Another Day
We are on day six of rain here in Charlotte, and I’m not sure when it will end. The old nursery rhyme comes to my mind as I look out my window and meditate. The problem with rain, rain, and more rain is one is inclined to get depressed. To add to my woes I…
Frozen In Time
We spend a lot of time talking about being “authentic.” We are encouraged to look within, struggle to uncover who we really are, and then embrace what we discover. The pitfall in this process is we often unearth only a snapshot of who we are at a particular time and place. We must be alert…