Snail Mail
Day 8 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. Only for a culture that values speed above all is snail a negative description. Back in 1998, the mo...
Category: memory
Lullaby
The twindlers are so tired, they fight sleep. Luke sits up in the bed wailing, his brother Ben, next to him, smiles at me, eager for anything that will distract...
{Day 20} Cultivating a Relationship with Your Home, Part 4
Where there is no beauty, put beauty, and you will find beauty. –Francis of Assisi, adapted. One of the books I read when I began to explore church and fa...
{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...
Practicing Resurrection
My immersion in Eugene Peterson’s books continued this past week with Practicing Resurrection. Alongside Answering God, it is one of his finest, and a gre...
Deeper Magic
Worried about the future, a woman stepped out of the campus library into the cold winter darkness. Decisions yet to be made pressed in upon her. Hungry and tire...
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...
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...