About: Lenny Scovel

Step into the fresh morning air and breathe deeply: this is our prayer. Jump into the cold mountain river and feel every capillary constrict: this is our prayer. Enter the child’s room and gently wake them to begin their day; this is our prayer. Catch yourself before giving harsh criticism and re-imagine your response: this… read more

Let us seek to live directionaly, rather than randomly.  An uncharted life may find us dashed upon the rocks, our vessel smashed, leaving us marooned.  To live an intentional life does not mean we need to know what the plan is at any given moment; rather, when we live with intention our choices become more… read more

Life is to be cherished, and yet often it is easy to take for granted or worse.  There is much to cause us angst, making us lament our living experience.  It is in these times that our prayers must focus on our relationships with each other.  Through the eyes of another, we gain a fresh… read more

May ‘hopeful’ be not ‘wishful,’ where hope is active and wishing is passive.  Hope implies forward motion and positive action.  Hope is an optimistic state of mind.  Hope breeds encouragement.  Hope springs from promising circumstances.  Ancient wisdom reminds us that Faith, Hope, and Love abide: those three attributes are not joined coincidentally.  They are the… read more

Today may we not only feel gratitude, but may we live it as well.  May we live as if the feelings and desires of others matter as much as our own.  May we live without petty grudges.  May we practice patience.  May we eat responsibly.  May we conserve resources.  May we make repairs.  May we… read more

Life is lived on many levels: there is the conscious world of our day-to-day activities; there is the sub-conscious world of our dreams and our phobias; there is the spiritual realm in which we feel connected to something bigger; and there is the organic domain, in which we are nothing more than processing plants, in-taking… read more

At times our sorrows feel as if they know no bounds, or that we will never again shed their burden.  And the platitude ‘time heals all wounds’ is not absolute: there are hurts we will carry with us for a lifetime.  So let us seek to make ourselves whole with our pains, and not seek to jettison… read more

Old McHuman had a prayer, ee-ay ee-ay oh! And in this prayer he said some words, ee-ay ee-ay oh! With a word word here and a word word there Here a word, there a word, everywhere a word word, Old McHuman had a prayer, ee-ay ee-ay oh. And in this prayer there was a tear, ee-ay… read more

‘Comfort me’ is the prayer on the lips of many.  And where does the discomfort lie?  It lies primarily in broken relationships, whether they are between people, between a person and their body, or that deepest relationship within us, connecting us to our inner-most self.  The superficial wounds of the flesh can be made right… read more

A prayer of exploration: may our desire to discover be insatiable.  May our courage be steadfast.  May our bearings not fail.  May we inventory our resources.  May we boldly move forward.  May we remember where we’ve been.  May we be present to where we are.  May we greet the natives with respect and regard.  May… read more