In her wonderful book, The Preaching Life, Barbara Brown Taylor tells of monthly visits she once took as a pastor to celebrate communion with a nursing home on the other side of town.

The annual school year concluding service led by our children.

The great 20th-century fiction writer, Ursula K. Le Guin, in her novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, writes, “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it’s the journey that matters in the end.”

“Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones,

Sight is a powerful spiritual metaphor because it is such an elemental function of human life, deeply linked to perception and understanding, both our experience of it and its lack.