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On Healing and Time

She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” (Mark 5:27, 28 NLT) This unnamed woman in Mark 5:25-34 is my soul sister.  As a lonely teenager, isolated and invisible, […]

At My Wits’ End

Psalm 107:23-32 (St. Helena Psalter) Some went down to the sea in ships,          and plied their trade in deep waters. They beheld your works, O Lord,          and your wonders in the deep. In 1995, I was a junior in college. I had the opportunity to study abroad, and so I […]

Bent Over Backward

A couple of weeks before Christmas, I threw my back out. When I say “out,” I mean O.U.T. Sitting still was a struggle and an unintentional turn of my torso had my body writhing in pain. I blame it on too many church committee meetings and the endless onslaught of emails that keep me hunched […]

Moments of Silence

I miscarried very, very early after I became pregnant for the first time. For one brief evening, my husband and I were naively dumbfounded and excited by the potential of a new baby in our lives. The next morning, I began showing symptoms of a miscarriage. Within a few days, we knew what we had […]

Do You Want to Be Made Well?

A sermon on John 5:1-9 “Do you want to be made well?” What an Ash Wednesday question. On a day where we traditionally hear about our own sinfulness and are faced with our own mortality, “to dust you shall return,” what a question to consider. Of course we want to be made well. Of course […]