Finding Hope in Suffering
Writing to keep my mind off the dizzy side effects of this new medication seemed like a good idea. As with every good thing, there's often a negative to deal…
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December 18, 2021
The Surprising Secret to Becoming Whole
Dear friend, It scared me just a bit to type out that title. It's somewhat of a bold statement with the promise of the secret sauce to becoming whole. Yikes!…
January 31, 2021
How my Word for 2020 Shaped New Words for 2021
I honestly couldn't remember my "word for 2020." I don't always have a "word" but through the years, friends and writers have given the challenge to embrace a word to walk through the new year ...a simple inspiration for a vision forward. It was interesting (and quite telling, I might add) to go back and see what had resonated and emerged as "my word."
January 24, 2021
A Place of Peace
It all welled up again. Anxiety that had become all too familiar. A simple routine scheduled appointment began to loom larger than a square mile on the calendar. The lab…
January 9, 2021
Unprepared
Today is the beginning of the season of Advent. In recent years, I've embraced this season more intentionally as a time of reflection and hope. It's become a tender space…
November 29, 2020
How to Live in a World of Unrest
We've been in a pandemic twilight zone for 5 months now with an underlying condition just as frightening of racial unrest and increasing uncertainty in our world we call home.…
September 7, 2020
Standing Between the Dead & the Living {Documenting the Days During the COVID-19 Crisis}
I listened with pandemic-altered attention as these words were read aloud in a morning devotional... "And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped." Numbers…
April 26, 2020
Life Behind the Face Masks :: Pondering in the Pandemic
Documenting the Days During the COVID-19 Crisis She stood there on our front porch on Easter Sunday afternoon. It took a minute to recognize who it was behind the face…
April 15, 2020
Sabbatical -vs- Quarantine
Documenting the Days During the Coronovirus / COVID-19 Crisis My last work day in person was Tuesday, March 17, 2020. At the end of that day, our team at Intentional…
March 20, 2020
Ash Wednesday || Beginning Lent
Church doors open all around the world for "the imposition of ashes" -- Ash Wednesday. It begins the season of Lent. 40 days plus a few Sundays -- ending…
February 26, 2020