A Blessing For When You Say Something Stupid
God I have done it again foot in mouth paving that fiery road in so many good intentions
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Enough When
It is cold as my feet touch the bare wooden floor, and a shiver creeps up my spine. The protective cocoon of the bed where my love still lies, peaceful, […]
Splashing in the Water
As preacher’s kids, my sisters and I were forever baptizing our pets. We come from a tradition that baptizes infants as a celebration of God’s grace; we don’t choose to […]
Grace and Vanilla Wafers
This morning my ravenous, growth-spurting twins decided that Mini ‘Nilla Wafers were the only acceptable food in our house. I doled out four—one for each hand for each twin, and […]
Untethered but Anchored
A year and a half ago, I left my full-time congregational ministry setting to take an intentional year off from full-time congregational ministry. I had been ordained a decade, serving […]
God’s Grace and My Father’s Love
My father was a force of nature. He was a big man, both physically and in spirit, and had the kind of laugh that had a way of booming itself […]
Grace-full Resolutions
January brings new beginnings. There’s calm after the flurry of holiday festivities. New calendars are crisp and white, empty dates full of promise. It’s an opportunity and often a yearning […]
Imperfectly, but with Joy
“But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.” -Matthew 5:48 I am a recovering perfectionist. I am also a terrible speller. I noticed after […]
Careful
When they came to the threshing-floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it. The anger […]
The Break-Up Flowers
They got delivered on Sunday by mistake. The florist had a backlog of funeral arrangements to deliver and the bouquet to commemorate my loss got pushed back until Sunday. I […]
