A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning and blessings, friends ~ If you live here in the U.S., today — Memorial Day — marks a threshold as we take our first step into summer (though school continues, at…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends, and peace to your hearts in this new week ~ Lent begins on Wednesday (!!!), and so begins the journey of 40 days (plus Sundays). If you have been part…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends, and a blessed New Year…. I receive such kind notes when I go long lapses without writing here, asking if I am okay. I am grateful to say things are…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Love and peace to you, friends, as we begin this final week of Advent ~ I wonder if you, like me, finds yourself not only in a wintry landscape beyond the window pane,…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Peace and love to you, friends, in this Thanksgiving week ~ These weeks have been full since I last wrote to you, with other writing deadlines and trips and many (MANY) no-school-days for…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Blessings and warmest of greetings to you this morning, friends! As I write to you now, many days out from the Chicago Marathon last Sunday, I am still absolutely overcome with gratitude. As…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Grace, peace, and love to you, friends ~ It’s good to be back. I’ve been anticipating returning to Monday Manna all month, but let me say, it’s been. a. month. Within a week’s…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends ~ I am sending you so much courage and comfort at the start of this new week. I was going to write today about thresholds, but that will wait…
A version of this post appeared in my “Monday Manna” newsletter. If you’d like to receive this directly to your inbox, subscribe here. Good morning, friends ~ Welcome to this new day and morning. A start of a new day is resurrection time—time to let Jesus bring to new life in you healing from yesterday’s…
Today, October 22, marks one year since Ash and Starlight: Prayers for the Chaos and Grace of Daily Life was born. Anniversaries are powerful days. They especially hold significant influence when our hearts and bodies pay attention to them with awareness and openness. With an anniversary, we mark the event, but we also mark the…
Today marks what would have been my dad’s 63rd birthday, and tomorrow is the birthday of my book – dedicated to my dad. In John 12:24, Jesus says to his disciples, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much…
Friends, Ash and Starlight: Prayers for the Chaos and Grace of Daily Life is now available for pre-order on both Amazon and Chalice (with more sites later on). All thanks and praise to God – the One who brought this into being amid years of grief, joy, pain, ambiguity, and the call to trust. My deepest…
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