Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak. - Mark Nepo Living Out Loud Living out loud is about building, not tearing down. Living out loud is about abundance, not scarcity. Living out loud is big, not small. Living out loud is ab...

There is a great battle raging: for my mouth not to harden and my jaws not to become like heavy doors of an iron safe, so my life may not be called pre-death.”  - Yehudi Amichai I am sensitive. I cry when I am moved, which is often. I am a self-di...

I have been thinking about the idea of paying it forward lately. Paying it forward is when we give to others from the space of gratitude for what we have been given, because we are deeply connected to one another. I am not sure when and where I first...

Dear Michelle, On Sunday you will officially begin serving a new congregation. As a friend, as a person who was raised in the United Church of Christ, as person who aspires to embody love and compassion in word and deed, I want to celebrate this m...