“Breakfast is Ready!” I find myself saying this day in and day out. It was no different this Monday, the day after Easter. A three week Spring Break for the kids was finally over (yep, you heard that right, three weeks!), and we were all back to the daily grind. I scrambled eggs for the… Read More “Breakfast is Ready”: The Resurrected Jesus in the Everyday
He came running to the door with his hand held out, “Mommy, Mommy, look what I have for you! Flowers! They are for you Mommy!” I looked at the golden offering in his tiny hand. Dandelion heads. They didn’t even have the stems. He didn’t know he had just picked me a bunch of weeds.… Read More Precious Offering: Some Thoughts on a Handful of Dandelions and Romans 12:1
I spent the day yesterday deep cleaning. There is something about the warmer weather and the birds chirping that makes you… or at least makes me… want to throw open the doors and windows and air things out. I can see why we call it Spring Cleaning… there is something in the Spring air that… Read More The Deep Clean of Lent: An Invitation to Attend to Our Souls
We all have them…those scared-to-get-out-of-the-boat places… those places we feel boxed in by fear… those places in our lives we look at and think, “I don’t see how I can overcome this.” I’ve been thinking about those impossible places in my life, those places where I don’t see how things will ever change, those places I… Read More In the Mood for Impossible Things
