Let’s Finish 2020 With a Hug
You can learn a lot by watching friends who’ve been apart finally see each other again…
Christmas Greetings ~ Love & Silence
After a divisive, contentious, excruciating, disappointing, frustrating, scary year, what if a little silence is just the thing to which a loving God is calling us?
Christmas Greetings
We all got caught on our back foot with a compressed holiday season. But what is the season trying to tell us (read, me) amid all of the busyness?
Grief + 1 Year: I’m not moving on…
It’s been one year since I said goodbye to my dad. The crush of life wants me to “move on”, but I think I’ve found a more honest way…
A Eulogy to Bob Cook
There were so many of you who wanted to be there for Dad’s memorial today; but time and distance made it understandably tough. I thought I’d get you the adapted notes of my eulogy for him. Thanks so much for your love and support!
First Birthday Apart…
There are totems and touchstones of my dad everywhere that make me smile. But we are at a big milestone that is making the heaviness return just a bit. It’s a mix of sorrow and gratitude with which I step into his first birthday that I can’t celebrate with him.
The Magnificent Contraction
It’s not from the Farm on Willow Road, but there’s still something to say…
Letting Go and Clearing the Canvas
From the moment we accepted the offer on the farm to the July morning we drove away, there was a truly insane amount of work to do. But what does it look like to do the even larger emotional work of actually letting go?
Why I’m Not Looking Forward to Christmas
I’m sitting in a coffee shop on a chilly day a week or so after Thanksgiving pondering a question:
Is it okay to love Jesus but dread Christmas?
The Work
We had the buyer, but there was still a ton of work to do – practically and emotionally. Here’s some insight on that journey…