Three times in the Gospels, Jesus narrows the 10 commandments down to two. In Matthew 22:34f, Mark 12:28f, Luke 10:25f. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Love your neighbor as yourself. Neither of them was listed in the 10 commandments in Exodus 20. But...

While we lived in the country, I always wanted to - some day - spend an entire day outside, from the earliest of dawn to deepest of night - just to watch - to take it in: the dawn to day to dusk to dark. But I never did. I rarely saw the sunrise in our tree-encircled piece of land. Either I...

As a journal-keeper and note-taker and word-savorer, I love to use notebooks and pens to scribble down the mundane and the miraculous. One of my favorite journals is my Commonplace Book. You've probably heard of them but in case you haven't... The practice of keeping Commonplaces goes back...