I read this and all indifference melts. Later I peer into eyes wonder what struggle my waitress, my kids’ teacher, my mask wearing perfect friend wrestles with. I wonder what makes you weary. The battle has been long and we…
We married in the dark candlelight of December. Flurries swirled on Kenyon College’s campus and we hurried into the stone church holding all our hopes for our future. We were crazy young: 18 and 20. We turned toward each other, said…
It has tugged and pulled at me all day, that question Emily Wierenga was wrestling with: the why of writing. Why do I continue to push the Publish button and send out small earth-filled offerings. Why DO I write? …
A few midsummer discoveries: 1. Brunch is the perfect hospitality meal with this amazing baked Blintz with blueberry sauce from Ina Garten, this quiche, caramelized bacon (Oh My Word!) and a whatever-you-have-on-hand fruit salad. The secret to why this functions so well for…
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee.” St. Augustine The chef knife lay over the clove of garlic flat and I smacked it with my fist feeling…
Hi friends, I’ve missed you …but have been desperate for hours of filling up…more of Jesus. My blog is empty but my spirit is slowly filling up. Now it’s 3:30am and Xavier just had a nightmare and I am up…
You know the moment. A crowded city square and you are walking through the cafe. In front of you is a woman sitting at a small marble table, fork suspended, looking beyond you and to the right with this big,…
We are traveling through five thresholds using the book, i once was lost, trying to understand the way people today come to faith. We stopped and learned around the first threshold, From Mistrust to Trusting a Christian and now on…
I hear a call in the quiet of the early morning: “Deepen,” He whispers. God is using the specific vocabulary of a Madeleine L’Engle lover. I was shaken Saturday. Triggered, that is. They were dressed straight off the cover of a JCrew catalog and I shrunk…
To Listen: To live empty, open, hands up receiving To surge in breaths of God truth, To abide in God one wing covering another. To breathe out focused: the Presence of God is HERE, always Here… Always speaking, and me?…