Kurt Mähler's Blog

Our calling is connected to others across time. How do we find those connections, and what do we do with them once we have found them?

If you hold your life up to the light, you discover a message hiding in plain sight. What is this message, and what simple practice brings us closer to seeing it?

If you hold your life up to the light, you discover a message hiding in plain sight. What is this message, and what simple practice brings us closer to seeing it?

To become mature is to become securely vulnerable and confidently private at the same time. What can we learn from Mary and the Child at His advent which might help us grow in both?

Every Frodo has a Sam, and every person searches for that same sweet spot of close friends and supreme purpose. But how on earth—or Middle-earth—do we find that sweet spot?

Every person is like a river with hidden gold, and those who view them through this lens awaken their courage to reveal it. But how do we set that lens for the murky waters of the everyday? How do we reveal the treasure in the places we go and the people we know?

Every person is like a river with hidden gold, and those who view them through this lens awaken their courage to reveal it. But how do we set that lens for the murky waters of the everyday? How do we reveal the treasure in the places we go and the people we know?

All of us are waiting for the open door, but are we preparing for it? We have to be ready the moment it appears, for when it comes, it will be too late to develop. It will be too late to prepare. It will be too late to "purchase lamp oil," as the ancients would say. How do we do that?

We are born into a story where another has left off. We have the privilege of furthering the trail they blazed. But how?

Our lives are filled with clues to our calling. Are we attentive to what's hiding in plain site? Is depends on whether you've trained your eye to see the watermark living in each joy and sorrow.