Casey Tygrett 4/12/23 Casey Tygrett 4/12/23

to return

What I have learned over the years is that there are places that help us return to our life with the Divine, with ourselves, and with others.

They might be beaches on islands far away. But they don’t have to be.

It might be a humble hermitage where we go for a day. But maybe not.

A specific chair in our home, during a specific time of the day when all is still, and a cup of coffee may be all we need.

The point isn’t where the “return” happens, but that it happens.

Casey Tygrett 3/1/23 Casey Tygrett 3/1/23

a Sweat shirt

When we have a daily threshold moment, however it may look for us, it teaches us the humility of our own edges. We learn the limits of our competency and capacity. Rest becomes not an enemy or a weakness but the natural result of a life lived honestly and courageously with the Divine.

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4/14/21 4/14/21

Spirituality With A Dog In Your Lap

There will always be excuses for us to dig beneath the crust of our carefully crafted selves. Some well-reasoned, some anxious, but all of them fear the same thing – reality. What might we find if we began turning over the stones in our souls?

8/5/20 8/5/20

Good Cancer and Where Growth Really Happens

I am frail. There are cancers that aren’t the good kind in this walking world; a world that is both temporary and miraculous.

And that is the journey - that’s where growth really happens. Knowing these things and their little deaths is what makes us more a contemporary than simply dust.

There is where we grow. That is how we heal.

7/12/18 7/12/18

a promise before departing

This week, I head off the grid for a bit. So, today's note reflects that reality. It is brief, but hopefully helpful for you today.

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6/26/18 6/26/18

it can always rain harder

The goal of formation is to be ready for the rain. It is to steady ourselves spiritually for the days when absurdity is all we can see. Formation through the Scriptures of lament, complaint, and whatever-in-the-world-Ecclesiastes-is give us language for the rain.

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6/20/18 6/20/18

Finding Saints Beyond My Boundaries (BONUS POST)

A bonus post (for regular readers) on boundaries and finding ancient saints - like St. Teresa of Avila - who push us beyond them.

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4/17/18 4/17/18

we need to process.

A longer post on why we need to take time to process our lives, rather than jump to a reaction and opinion. (Photo courtesy of Brooke Cagle/Unsplash.com)