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Summer Reading: A Playground for the Mind
My childhood nooks and crannies tucked themselves into lingering places: the treehouse perched high in our three-pronged magnolia tree, the rope hammock secured between towering ancient oaks, the window seat sequestered at one end of the family den. Each place gathered me into a new space of...
Peter’s Ponderings
The loss of Jesus slams me to the ground. I tremble at the puzzle of all of this new way. Yes, He appears but He doesn’t stay. I want to go back to what we had before. Unsure of next steps, I return to familiar places and do familiar things. Stuck, I tuck myself back into comfortable...
Thomas’ Thoughts
Eastertide stretches over 50 days. When we read through the Bible, we see the disciples and other followers of Jesus meet Him in unexpected ways. Imagine, if you will, what it was like to engage with Jesus after Tomb Day. After Resurrection’s glory. With my sacred imagination, I wondered what...
Watching Over Our Hearts
"Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life." Proverbs 4:23 When I watch over my heart, with diligence, I examine it from all angles. I look in every realm to see what it looks like. What exactly is forming in: my spiritual life? my emotional life? my...
Turning to His Way
Romans 2:4 says, “God’s kindness leads us to repentance.” Repentance may feel like a rather old-fashioned word; sometimes it comes across as a harsh word. We’ve probably heard it threatening fiery sermons that feel rather punitive. Yet, repentance may be different than what we assume it is...
Lenten Prayers and Ponderings
Questions to ponder and pray over during our Lenten fast: What is the hunger beneath the hunger about? What do I thirst for? How have I been filling my hunger/thirst apart from God? What is God up to in this time of fasting? Where do I hope God doesn’t ask me to deny myself? How do I resist...
Ponderings about Fasting
We fast to feast on God. Jesus sets fasting as the example in John 4 where He says, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about," and "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me." In Matthew 4, He says, “We don’t live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”...
Lenten Explorations
Lent invites us to explore. Ash Wednesday marks birth into a season punctuated with life and death: the life of Christ across thirty-three stunning earth years, Holy Week’s heftiness, the suffering road to the Cross, and His grace-offered death. Lent leads us along the road to our own need...
Along the Road from Lent to Easter
Uncertainty That place where my inability to control Whatever life is handing me shakes me to the place of Certainty that You are God and I am not. Uncertainty In the Time of Lent Brings all that I am To You, the great I AM The certain sure One Here in an uncertain season Where ...
Letter to a Beloved Child
My beloved Child, You know, I knit you together in your mother’s womb. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139: 13-14) I had great fun designing your skin in such a way that you could feel the grains of sand between your toes, the roughness of rocks and bark, the smoothness of a cool...
