Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Discernment

  • Episode 26. May 27, 2022

  • Changed

    In times of conflict or great disruption, we are always asking ourselves how will we be changed. But the process changes us.

  • Ash Wednesday challenges us to see the depth of our delusions of grandeur: our enslavement to our own egos.

  • Three words to guide the year. Join with others writing #my3words for 2022 and make a resolution that will stick.

  • The one rule about church we had growing up was that we had to go on Sundays. Not that we had to pay attention or like it. We didn’t have to memorize or make public commitments. There was no witnessing or professing our faith. I never saw this as a hurdle or an unreasonable expectation.…

  • At some point we have to pick. Some pick at three. I’m a golfer. Or at seventy-three. I’m a priest. We pick a path. A life. Too often, though, we let a life pick us. [bctt tweet=”‘How will you help change the world?’” nofollow=”yes”] I always struggled with the question of what I want to be when I grow…