Scorekeeping is about who hurts whom more. In the long-term, no one wins.

May the words that I speak remind others that they are beloved.

Building relationships requires the risk of being open and curious.

Love cannot fix everything, but it can keep us company.

When covenant / breaks, we need to come home / to trust.

I learned that love and support can be expressed in many different ways by different people.

Conflict resolution is in fact one of the greatest things that you can accomplish in your life and in your relationship. [W]hen I view people as not bringing conflict up, I think it’s being unfaithful to the relationship. I think it’s an abdication of your role in the relationship, and you are...

Start by telling the story of your mistake. Keep practicing! This is a tool you can use in many different situations.

We cannot begin to find ourselves without love.

May I have the wisdom to be curious when I find myself grumbling about “them.”

This reflection was part of Side With Love Sunday 2021.

We are one, a diverse group of proudly kindred spirits, here not by coincidence but because we choose to journey together.

This is a "love saves" story.

It’s important to honor the footprint others leave on our heart.

A new disease, without any cure, is pushing us apart. And, yet, we cannot escape one another. We need one another. Whether I acknowledge it or not, the guarantee of safety does not exist.

Of course there are people behaving badly during this pandemic, using it as an excuse to practice prejudice, to hoard, to blame; using it to divide and weaken us, cashing in on surface tensions for their own terrible benefit. The news daily shows these heavy things....

In this community, we hold hope close. We don’t always know what comes next, but that cannot dissuade us. We don’t always know just what to do, but that will not mean that we are lost in the wilderness. We rely on the certainty beneath, the foundation of our values and ethics. —Rev. Theresa I.

A lot of us feel like our lives should have come with instructions. Or maybe they did, but we lost the only copy a long time ago.

We have so many opportunities to bless each other in this world, but they don’t always announce themselves as moments of profound transformation.

One: To become is a life long process. Nothing is constant, not even the self. We evolve in the midst of narratives meant only for some and ways of being made narrow by fear and power. We must, then, have the courage to listen to the truth of our own lives, to the wisdom that comes from within—...