A Dangerous Thirst for Youth and Beauty
To celebrate crossing the one hundred page mark in my dissertation, I took myself to a movie, Snow White and the Huntsman. The previews included the new Les Mis...
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{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 18} Cultivating a Relationship with Your Home, Part 2
I’ve always been a “I’ll do it in the morning” kind of person. Dishes stayed in the sink and on the counter until I shuffled out into th...
{Day 15} Color Your Prayer
When I began doing Sabbath Space with the theology grad students, I simply put out crayons and play-dough and anything else I thought might tempt them to play o...
{Day 14} Friday Florilegium
Yesterday, I read a fabulous children’s story aloud to Jane and Jack, The Bootmaker and the Elves. I loved the story, the Texan twang of the dialogue, and...
Friday Florilegium
On a recent visit to the Seattle Art Museum, I enjoyed their exhibit, “Beauty and Bounty,” featuring 19th century west coast landscapes by artists s...
Living Good News
Mondays are for counting thanks to 1000 and beyond… One of my church’s missionaries, Carl, told a story about the healing impact of the Gospel that ...
Creating Space for Beauty
I’ve found that experiencing beauty as a regular part of my day requires cultivating a welcoming space: physical space, such as having a special area to d...