All too often, we believe peace is impossible in our community, in our homes and our marriages. Impossible in the light of scary test results and uncertain futures. Our default setting is defeat.
Around the Table: The Sacred and the Ordinary
We meet over a shared meal. Breaking bread in a way that is both sacred and ordinary. It is a holy time set aside each month to gather around a friend's table. We never coordinate what to bring for the meal. Yet, miraculously, it always works. Sometimes, it is all salads and bread. Someone might …
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A Day Like Any Other
This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.Psalm 118:24 It felt like Saturday. That is, it felt the way Saturday used to feel when it was a separate day. It was perfectly sunny and 76 degrees. We planted tomatoes, and I traded extra seedlings with neighbors for a portion of yeast and a face mask. Yeast does not seem to exist in any local grocery. Our neighbors stood on …
Get Ready for Freedom
You may not be ready for fierce. You may not feel fiery. But who doesn't want to be free? Free from feeling like you aren't enough, even as others expect you to meet their needs. Free from feeling like you don't belong. Free to speak up or speak out. Free to push back on expectations …
Be Still
"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"Psalm 46:10 The Earth is at peace. The hum of human activity quieted. Even Earth's upper crust is moving just a little less as everything pauses in the pandemic. Photos of empty streets around …
Goin’ on a Bear Hunt
It began as someone else's idea posted on a Facebook page called Project Quarantine 2020. This is a page dedicated to fostering joy and community connection during this season of shelter in place. The post was called "Start a Bear Hunt" fashioned after the book We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen …
Can’t Cancel Spring
A pandemic can suspend our plans but it can't cancel Spring!
Peace in a Pandemic
The drumbeat of fear over coronavirus is hard to avoid. Is it starting to get to you? Although I am not generally an alarmist, I have to admit it is starting to freak me out. You can't buy rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer anywhere. For goodness sake, people are hoarding toilet paper, batteries, and water. …
Beautifully Flawed
I was once a potter. It was a hobby, but it brought me great joy. I still use some of the bowls that I made so many years before. I loved the shapes and textures of different clays: the silky white porcelain and the grey stoneware. I enjoyed playing with different glazes and experimenting with …
Celebrate in the Midst
I just read a piece written by Katherine Wolf that inspired and encouraged me. In it, she challenges us to celebrate in the midst. In the midst of a scary diagnosis, the middle of a nasty divorce or the ongoing care of someone with a chronic mental or other illness. Celebrate now. Throw a Tribulation …
SMALL MOMENTS FULL OF GRACE 