Later-Life Fitness Journey # 4 Later-life offers this choice:Use retirement to build a bridgeor to rear a wall. Gifted with days filled with life-giving opportunities,I choose to be steady and […]
Author: calledtobealive
Good Food
LATER-LIFE FITNESS JOURNEY # 3On my later-life fitness journeyI am learning to eat natural food mindfully.
Fun Exercise
LATER-LIFE FITNESS JOURNEY #2In the book of life has been written all the days that were formed for me. On my later-life fitness journey, fun physical exercise helps me age […]
A Writing Ritual
LATER-LIFE FITNESS JOURNEY # 1A writing ritual is an important part of mylater-life fitness journey. Like a tasty espresso,a few minutes of creative writing every dayheightens my awareness of what’s […]
Advent
Strange and wonderful—this season of AdventWaiting on the Word made flesh, our voice is awakened and the child In us comes alive
Seize a Sacred Moment and Dance
Seize a Sacred Momentand Dance on Holy Ground Every day there are precious moments when we canbreathe the Spirit of God in deeply,kick off our shoes, and dance before the […]
When Tears Came
When tears came on Whidbey Island where I had moved to start my life over after my first wife of nearly forty years had died suddenly, I breathed deeply, rested […]
Look at the View!
Strolling above the beach on a summer day offa colleague told of a chance encounterwith a person who looked out on the ocean and said: “Look at the view! Just […]
Singing
There’s something about singing—Be it a birthday jingle for a grandchildor an anthem for some grand celebration,by singing I enter the love song that flows like a river
God’s Grandeur
Reading Gerard Manley Hopkin’s sonnetGod’s GrandeurI take heart in the eternal freshness of nature I have watched God’s grandeur rise from my ownfeeling crushedhave trod and trod, yet my soul […]