Post first published at http://adultdaycarespokane.org/caregiving-as-a-spiritual-practice/. I am keeping vigil with a dying person. In the parlance of our society, I am a caregiver. I am discovering that being caregiver to an elderly loved-one, who is receiving services in a hospice program, is not a terminal activity. I come to see caregiving as an enduring spiritual practice. Care giving is a role that receives little recognition in our...

  “What might Rumi say about sustainability and climate change? I lay restlessly awake last night thinking about climate change and sustainability. I admit that I am sometimes frightened by the fractious conversation. The stakes are high. What is the future of the world my children will inhabit? My children’s children? It is a question hard to even ask. “We can still do something.” On his visit to the United States,...

The table is set. Come, dine with me! Setting the table for dinner guests is a most invitational, inspirational, and intimate act. Setting the table for evening dinner is one of the highlights of my daily routine. It is time for me to set aside reading, writing, and the daily tasks of care giving. Setting the table invites relational presence. Setting the table anticipates intentional human connection. Food and drink are essential to life. When...

Might we shift from conventions of leadership to collaborative, relational and life-giving ways of sharing and discovering meaning together?

Sometimes, in the business of our lives, windows open as fresh-breeze opportunities to return to our center. The invitation to be a speaker at the Earlham School of Religion 6th Annual Quaker Leadership Conference is such a window for me. Nestled in an upper room of the Lauramoore Guest House and Retreat Center, I reflect on the gift of this time of deepening and centering. My life has been overwhelmed with the logistics of moving my...

Imagine your organization as a home.  Does your organizational decision making happen on the main floor of transactional life, in the basement of foundational fundamentals, or in the high place of the attic? My experience is that most organizational decision making is transacted on the busy main floor.  It is the highest trafficked place in the organization.  It is the mainstream business world where there is a sense of order and busy-ness...