Routine is everything to me. Especially a morning routine. When my morning regime goes missing, so does settledness of soul. I need the rhythm of the everyday. Jesus-time. A good long walk. But, first (and before anything else) coffee……
Years ago, Bay and I began a movie we never finished. I, conveniently, don’t remember the title. I’ve no idea why we didn’t finish it – language, maybe (we’re not fans of intentionally inviting words into our home that…
I truly dislike it when I have a blog written, all wrapped up, tied with a bow, ready to post, and THEN…I stop and read the thing for the 10,000th time, and it’s JUST NOT what I wanted to…
Ok. A little vulnerability here. As I began diving into Paul’s second letter to Timothy, I discovered my anxiety levels starting to rise. Reading 2 Timothy is almost like listening to the evening news. Right there, in the heart…
These words of Jeremiah no doubt rang in Paul’s ears as he wrote 2 Timothy! To be honest, every so often I sit down to write with a similar heavy heart. My joy is gone; grief is upon me;…
I shake my head at how complicated our world has gotten – not just from sea to shining sea – but all around the globe. Evil is called good. Good is being called evil. Truth is whatever you want…
A few weeks ago, I stopped short in the midst of reading a post on social media. Up to the point my breath caught in my throat, I was engaging with what the writer had to say about dying…
I started thinking that I should have titled last Thursday’s post: A Tale of Two Women…. However, the more I debated that title, I decided, that wasn’t at all appropriate! It really is the tale of “one woman.” Why?…
A memory popped into my head a few days back from about seven or eight years ago… Odd how this happens. However, it is one remembrance I felt worth exploring. One afternoon my job as Dean of Women at…
It’s very simple, actually…. the story of reconciliation. It’s not a “race” thing, unless you are talking the human race. No question, it is a human-race-need. The story starts in the Garden of Eden. God made man in His…