Great Love and Loving One, I look around me… How I crave your true and powerful and unifying (of the deepest kind) love. More than a Valentine’s Day love…. I look around…. Seeking your gritty, steady love that humbles itself into gracious relationship. That lays down to listen. I…
Let’s make room today. Let’s clear out what we’ve been using to numb or avoid or block. Let’s trust that in the quiet, open space there is healing. And then let’s listen…. *** Patient, Gentle, God, I can be so afraid of emptiness. There are so many ways to stuff out the…
Have you heard the serpent’s whisper in your life recently? “Did God really say…..” As I myself struggle with trust in some areas of my life, I’ve heard this whisper from Genesis 3 when the serpent confronts Eve. Did God really say…. Sometimes, like Eve, I can respond forthrightly with what God said. But then,…
Happy New Year, my friends! What’s swirling in your spirits as the new year begins? I hope you are lifting pressure from yourself. I hope you are looking in the mirror at the 2018 you and smiling. I hope you are telling yourself this will be a year of showing grace and love and…
We are half-way through December and I wonder how your heart is faring. Winter’s taken a dramatic dive into colder temps and snow (at least in Chicagoland), and I think our inner soul landscape often feels the effect of that. The stretching hours of darkness and frigidity the earth now endures reminds me we often…
Advent – this holy time of transformation and waiting and pain and trust – begins on Sunday. I wonder what you are waiting for right now…. I wonder where you, like Mary, have been asked by God to do something you don’t feel capable of doing. I wonder where you, like Joseph, have been asked…
I’m thinking of you, friends, as we approach Thanksgiving next week. It’s a time when we feel the full emotional gamut, don’t you think? There are kids home from college and cross–country journeys to visit grandparents. There are crazy, frenetic, expensive trips to and fro at airports. There’s the ache of loved ones who are…
Loving God, Today, with your help, I release ruminating on what I can’t control. Today, with your help, I will welcome what is – not in resignation, but in trust. This, too, can be an instrument in my transformation. Life won’t always be this way. And maybe, just maybe, I need this in order…
Last weekend, my grandmother died. “Tutu” as we called her (Hawaiian for grandmother in honor of her favorite place) was my last living grandparent. In taking her first breath in heaven, she passed down the legacy lamp for the next generation to carry. As one of our family’s dear friends said, “she was a…
One of my challenges of late: Where is my focus? Thoughts are powerful – especially when we tend to ruminate on the same things over and over again…..and over again (if you’re anything like me). Our thoughts seep into our bones. They become a part of us in such a physical way, affecting our perspective…
Reading Psalm 46 changed what I originally was going to post. It’s a psalm I’ve turned to time and time again during challenging times. Times of stress or anxiety or pain or lots of big, big questions. “God is our refuge and strength, a help always near in times of great trouble. That’s why we…
Thank you all so much for surrounding me with such tenderness and love following my post/prayer earlier this week. Our beloved community near and far has continued to make Christ real to us each day through prayers, caring for our kids, dropping off food, running errands, and sending gift cards. Though I’ve embraced it reluctantly,…
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