Author: calledtobealive

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

Like a tree I am a slow, enduring force reaching toward the heavensGiving til every leaf falls off,forever rooted in the promise of new life

Away from my many books this morningI pondered just how much of what I’ve readhave I retained and to what end? I may be like a little library to those […]

The journey toward a healthier planetbegins on a path made by our own mistakesand continues today when we lovinglycall Earth our Mother

Mary’s story is my story and probably your story too. Told not to be afraid., try something new, we are called to bear God’s goodness beyond what we first think […]

In quiet candle light, the day beckoning meto a lifetime’s work of being and doing afresh,giving need to One who formed me from dust I felt bright white floating wings […]

Life is too short to see all I want to see,do all I want to do,and achieve all I’ve deemed important But to arrive at peace with a quiet mindin […]