God’s Pointing At You… Back in 1917, the US Army created an iconic poster meant to instill patriotism and enhance recruitment as we ventured into the war-to-end-all-wars (World War I). Even though the war officially began in Europe on…
From Surprised to Soul-Settled Last week I promised we’d look into the Apostle Peter’s personal theology of suffering. Before I bullet point his thoughts, I want to add a P.S. to last week. It’s only natural to feel surprise at the…
Holy Oddballs One-Another (and a look at Easter) Just around the corner (this Sunday), we are celebrating Easter. Sometimes, it’s easy to get lost in the doings and the trappings, rather than reflecting and celebrating the reason of the…
While We’re Here…We Work When I turned sixteen, I secured a real job (even though I babysat for years before) at JC Penney’s department store in their sewing section (that dates me!). Since I loved to sew and, by then, had…
What Does It Look Like to Put on Jesus I don’t often re-write a past blog, and if I do, I have an unspoken rule with myself that it will never be a recent post. However, I want to…
How Exiles Dress Recently my mind wandered back to sixth grade (which feels like a century ago). That was the year school suddenly clicked for me. Until then I’d been an average student, but something changed when I walked…
Get Dressed! I spend far too much time each morning trying to figure out what to wear. 🤷♀️ First world problem? Undoubtedly! Women’s issue? Probably! For me, it’s usually a combination of meeting the following criteria : • wanting to…
Anchoring Ourselves Between Here and There As a kid, I exchanged letters back and forth with my grandmother who lived several hours away (how old fashioned, right?). We’ve lost the art of hand-writing letters over the years, with the…
A Passport Stamped by Mercy The older I get, the less I seem to care what other people think about me. Not completely — let’s be honest — but the grip of needing approval has definitely loosened. The hunger…