• In the early 1980's, an alumni from my MBA program began bugging me to attend personal growth trainings called Insight Seminars, which are designed to achieve a greater measure of self knowledge and effectiveness in life through the application of heartfelt, practical tools for living life more successfully and lovingly.

    At the time, this was the last thing I wanted to do. With 20/20 hindsight, I am eternally grateful to her for her persistence because these trainings reawakened something authentic in me that had been dying. I took every training they offered and in the process connected with a group of people affiliated with the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA). They invited me to a taped lecture by John Roger, the spiritual director of MSIA. I experienced such a deep resonance of truth in his teachings that MSIA became my spiritual home. To find out more about MSIA and its related organizations, go to www.msia.org.
  • I was ordained in 1985. The charge of our ministry is to honor all religious and spiritual traditions and each person’s right to find his or her way in these matters. We minister to all regardless of race, creed, color, situation, circumstance, or environment. My ministry is largely silent in the forms of prayer, meditation, and acts of anonymous service. The more public forms include grief counseling, and officiating at wedding ceremonies and memorial services and celebrations. I also facilitate seminars and workshops on practical spirituality.
  • While I was attending a ministers' meeting in 1991, one of my fellow ministers was sharing about how much he loved to officiate at weddings and how few interfaith and ecumenical ministers were around at that time. I knew in that moment that I wanted to offer my services in this way. I was terrified my first time. Then, little by little, I developed a methodology for helping couples to design their weddings, as well as running rehearsals and officiating the ceremonies themselves. In 2005, hundreds of weddings later, I published The Wedding Ceremony Planner: The Essential Guide to the Most Important Part of Your Wedding Day (Sourcebooks, ISBN 1402203438) to help couples and clergy to design heartfelt, customized ceremonies.
  • I am so grateful to have found a body of spiritual teachings and a spiritual family that have been such a rich source of comfort and nourishment for me for over 24 years now. I am abundant in ways I never knew existed before. I am blessed beyond measure.