One of the things I like about the story of the Garden of Eden is when Adam and Eve hear God walking about the garden in the cool of the day. It reminds me of an old old hymn my mom loves, and which I've lead congregations in singing at hundreds of funerals, and which...

This is probably the best description of courage I've read in a long time. It is written by G. K. Chesterton in his book Orthodoxy: "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. 'He that will lose...

Get out of your head and into your body. I'm preaching to myself here. But maybe you can overhear. Although I encourage people to think, I also encourage people to get into their bodies. When I go through really intense intellectual or spiritual transformations, I...

Yesterday I brought home a fresh bouquet of tulips for Lisa. They are bright yellow with a tint of orange. Green leaves and stems. She did her last shift of her preceptorship in Palliative Care. Now all that's left is her graduation ceremony and writing her Provincial...

Want to smile and maybe laugh? We can have fun on TLS. If you've ever been in a chatroom or at a Potluck Hangout, you know what I'm talking about! This is my own cheesy Christian t-shirt design, "Jesus Is My Spotter". But one of our members started a thread about bad...