Today, I’m feeling like I got offered the role of the good Samaritan in Jesus’ famous parable, and instead I chose to play the priest or the Levite, both of whom left a man who had been robbed and beaten lying on the side of the road (Luke 10: 29-37). I know I’m not the…
I was going to post a fantastic recipe for minestrone today (and I’ll still post it for you later), but I felt a nudge to write instead about what God has been doing in our lives this week. So that’s what I’m going to do. But first I just want to say, fasten your seat…
Last Friday, E graduated with his Masters. L, who’s been watching a lot of Frozen, spent the whole week calling it his “cornoration.” I still can’t quite believe it. It honestly feels like we just started out on this crazy journey toward a new career for him. Didn’t we just move? Didn’t he just go…
Silence is a luxury. I didn’t used to think so, back when I was single and had plenty of opportunity for it. Back then, silence was something I mostly wanted out of. It was something I sought to break, to fill up with sound. So much so that I did what most of us, here…
If I stop to think about it, it seems funny to me that Easter is once a year. Not the Easter bunny and egg hunt part; the resurrection part. The part wherein we celebrate the fact that Jesus died for the sins of the entire world, but then rose from the grave again, proving that…
Do you hide from the mirror? You moms out there – you know what I mean. You get undressed, into and out of the shower, without looking in the mirror. Because if you turn your head to just the right angle, you don’t have to look. You don’t have to see. I do it, too….