(Click on the picture to pray Rev 7:13-17 with me in lectio divina. Subscribe here to receive them weekly.) He who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. Never again will they hunger; never again will they…
Three weeks ago I looked across to Andrew reading in bed and wondered out loud when we would be allowed to go home. I was done with this moving thing. Our neighborhood pool had just closed for the autumn, he was beginning to travel again,…
When you packed up that UHaul you carried more than just your tan couch up the ramp, you brought along other baggage too: grief, anxiety, anger, and possibly fear. Moving changes everything. Psychologists say it can disturb the deepest foundations underneath your identity.…
Wide open, unfilled spaces can be utterly freeing. Anne Morrow Lindbergh in A Gift by the Sea rolled up the rugs in her “shell of a beach house” to encourage visual simplicity, a way of embracing the quiet. With this move, your schedule has…
Nana squirted the colors out on white paper plates, four small mounds. Fingers dip in, tentative at first. “This is your sad page. Madeline,” mom explains, “draw your feeling. It doesn’t have to be a picture, just paint how you feel onto the…