anamnesis

{Day 19} Cultivating a Relationship with Your Home, Part 3

When I think how close I came to not taking my apartment, I marvel at God’s patient persistence and the grace gift of faith. I’ve moved nearly every...

{Day 17} Cultivating a Relationship with Your Home, Part 1

My first place I called home after college was also called The Hedge among those in my college Christian fellowship. I’ve lived in many places and had the...

{Day 3} Noticing Thankfulness

What is a memory for which you are grateful? Take a moment to put yourself back into the memory, see the colors, hear the sounds, feel the emotions attached to ...

Telling Time

Years ago, I entered a new world of desks in straight rows, bells, and tasks like see-jane-run and m is for mr munching mouth. I loved mixing more paints and co...

Seeing Presence

While in Boston, one of the many places I lived was in a lovely old building in a long-standing Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Originally, the apartment complex...

Inspiration

“We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” ...

Making a Gratitude Journal

My recent posts have centered around two themes: gratitude and memory, the two areas I believe God is leading me to focus on for 2010. In this time between Chri...

As I look at the beautiful Christmas tree here at my parent’s home, hung with 40 years of memories, I’m struck by how this tree is like memory itsel...

A Thousand Gifts

“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” John 10:10 A year ago I stumbled upon a blog called A Holy Experience. The captivating poet...