Bird Meditation   When I sit quietly and softly in my chair on the patio garden, beside the sage,   when I allow my soul time to pause, to step aside from the noise and the sparkle,   when I sit still and silent with my breath with closed eyes and feel the breeze blow... Continue Reading →

A God Who Joins the Flock Stuart Higginbotham   I have never really spent much time around sheep, so it is hard for me to really “get into” the Gospel texts about sheep and shepherding.  We had plenty of livestock around us as children back in Arkansas, but no sheep.  We even had one family... Continue Reading →

A Pandemic Priesthood Stuart Higginbotham This morning, forty-six days after I closed our campus and we moved our shared ministries to our homes and an online platform, we gathered for our weekly Sunday service of Morning Prayer via Zoom.  (As an update, we really are getting better at logging in and aiming the camera at... Continue Reading →

Normal   When are we going to go back to normal? When will things return to normal? I hear this so often and a part of me echoes this as well, but my soul, my soul, whispers about something else to yearn for,  something else to set our eyes and hearts on. My soul desires... Continue Reading →

Forty   Moses entered into the cloud on the top of the mountain and stayed there, in God’s presence, to see what he needed to see-- to learn how to see-- for forty days.  The wisdom forged in that space guided his people through their wilderness journey, struggling and hoping, for forty years, or, as... Continue Reading →

I am revisiting this list of "Nine Lessons I am Learning" from about a month ago, now that we have reached the 40-day mark in my home.  I am adding one lesson after these five weeks, a lesson that focuses on the dynamic of leadership.  So, here are "Ten Lessons I am Learning at the... Continue Reading →