Casey Tygrett 5/2/23 Casey Tygrett 5/2/23

At The Edge

Edges are the places where we are pushed to either recognize that we are out of our depth and our strength is dismantled or they are places where we stare into an unknown with little understanding of how to go forward.

What I have come to learn, however, is that no matter how I grit my teeth against the edges I experience in life the edges are necessary. Why?

Casey Tygrett 4/26/23 Casey Tygrett 4/26/23

A Book is Just A Beginning

I feel so strongly that life with the Divine is about starting something…the Divine is beginning something today in each of us. There are, of course, our “works in progress” – our life story as it is up to this point – and yet within each large overarching story there are little beginnings as well.

1/10/23 1/10/23

The Truth About Healing

The truth about healing is that it is not a return to what was.

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?

11/17/20 11/17/20

Winston and the Restless Quiet of 2:30am

Restlessness is that uninvited moment where we suddenly realize, like the bartender’s trope, “I can’t go home but I can’t stay here.” The restless moment in front of us is the space in between. It is the nowhere between where we were and where we’re headed.

8/25/20 8/25/20

You Actually Like Tradition (Guest Post)

All of this is tradition; it is living history. The way you and I experience a baseball game isn’t all that different from a century ago. If things don’t happen as we expected, it almost feels sacrilege. I’m convinced that we like tradition more than we admit.

(Photo by Osman Rana on Unsplash)

2/25/20 2/25/20

Ash Wednesday and What We Do With Limits

This is Ash Wednesday. It isn’t a morbid call to think about our death, though that’s not a horrible thing to do. The ashes also don’t call us to overwhelming amounts of guilt around the crucifixion, though that is also a fitting line of thinking.

Ultimately, Ash Wednesday invites us to enter into our limits.

5/23/18 5/23/18

speaking the language of the team

The language we use for the things that give us joy, that bring us pain, the way we talk about our challenges and struggles, they all draw an outline around the figure of our soul as we move through space. We often take these teachings to apply to individual speech acts. What I say, what my child says, what I respond to – and yet it has to be bigger than that. And it is.

Because we always learn our words in community.

Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash

5/4/18 5/4/18

Friday Randomness

Writing a weekly blog can be a tricky business. You want to bring the best of whatever it is you write, and there are times when issues are ripe and thoughts are flowing and you feel like some sort of conduit for God's revelation and inspiration.

And then there was this week.

So, in lieu of more eloquent thoughts - of which I have none - I wanted to give you some random things that have given me life this week. My hope is that they would do the same for you.

Photo by Chris Barbalis on Unsplash