The Day I Doubted Would Come…
Julia’s graduation from fifth grade is the fulfillment of a lot of hard work and dedication by a lot of people. But I had wondered early on if it would ever happen. Those fears – and the fears of the future – were answered in a peculiar way.
Christmas Greetings
Another strange Christmas filled with uncertainty – and in our local community, deep anguish. But what does the hope of the season offer us and how do receive it?
Unexpected Joy in the Everyday ~ Binky, Baby, Mom
I’ve decided to push against the algorithm of outrage and negativity with a short vignette of joy I experienced this morning. It ambushed me as I was in my occasional morning office at the local coffee shop. #binkybabymom
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…
Gethsemane
I came upon a stirring pair of sculptures while hiking on my retreat. They depicted Jesus’ despair in the Garden of Gethsemane as three of his disciples slept. I sat and contemplated, and in an out-of-character nudge of creativity (for poetry, any way), the following verse is the result…
In Every Life, At Least One
Though we often push forward despite the pain we carry, sometimes it’s best to pull aside for a bit and find out what’s really going on.
The Magnificent Contraction
It’s not from the Farm on Willow Road, but there’s still something to say…