The latest from my blog

If you are not a Christian, don't bother reading this. It won't make any sense to you. If you are a Christian, I pray it makes more sense than anything you've seen on the news. We are walking out some extremely dark times in our history, and I am not just talking...

I went into town yesterday. I delivered my fanciful handmade soaps to Seaman's Market, drove through the drive-through at the bank, and then pulled over into an empty parking spot uptown, to choke back tears and call an understanding friend. I looked at the stretch of...

There are two terms I am learning to despise.  "The new normal" and "back to normal".  Personally, I'd love to see these eradicated from our global vocabulary.  I'd love to see us redefine "normal" with what is glorious. The "new normal" insinuates that this isolation...

For as weighty and voluptuous of a moment in history as this is, it seems like an appropriate time to be reading the book of Acts. When the book begins, the disciples had just seen the glory of God manifest in a once-and-for-all, sin-obliterating sacrifice, a...

I put my ear to the earth and hear an undercurrent of grumbling spreading like gangrene across my town.  Maybe the globe, I don't know.  And, personally, I have had quite enough, for one lifetime and even one day, of folks judging motives without asking.  I have been...

Keeping company with the book of Matthew, I read through Jesus' string of parables (in chapter 13).  I landed on the last one, the one about the dragnet bringing in good and bad fish, at the end of the age, and sorting out the bad fish (the ones that represent the...

I took communion today.  In a graveyard.  Looking out across stone monuments commemorating people who have left the dirt of earth behind in their wake.  I knelt there, in the moist dirt, feeling the spongy softness under my knees and pondering.  I flipped pages to a...

The whole world must've taken an exhale.  One, long, quiet exhale.  Then forgot to take the breath back in the lungs.  Silence rolled over the land.  Even the Bible is remarkably silent.  I cannot help but notice the significance of the entire world, in our own...

It's Good Friday!  I don't know if you knew that or not.  Maybe you weren't raised in the Church and were too embarrassed to ask what "Good Friday" means.  All my life I have known about this Holiday... this Holy Day... the day that signifies one of the six (according...

My husband had a bizarre dream about 3-ish days before the whole world turned topsy-turvy.  He woke up in the middle of the night, and for this peri-menopausal chick, that's the hour (or three) of prayer, so I was already wide awake when he began to tell me about it,...

It seems pretty prophetic, to me, that this is the year 2020.  The year when our vision hopefully clarifies.  Nothing like a good ol' worldwide upheaval to bring a little clarity! Right now, we are being stripped off all the superficial, all that we have tailored our...

I cried yesterday.  Over something really petty.  And I knew it wasn't about the thing, it was about the state of the world.  I didn't cry hard.  I choked it back, called a prayerful friend, and regained my bearings.  But it was enough to give me a pause and make me...