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 ...
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Answered Prayers
Mondays are for counting thanks to 1000 and beyond… While I love Seattle, I need to get out of the city every so often to a place with more grass than con...
Cup Overflowing
Continuing to count all that I am grateful for… 385. Leading the retreat, Cup Overflowing: Joy as a Lenten Practice, for an amazing and wonderful group of...
Patience
A quiet day of sunshine, writing and prayer…deep in Advent waiting, working on my dissertation and cooking a batch of soup. “Instead of asking why t...
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...
Word Whisperer
I worry this morning that pursuing a contemplative life is merely a mask for my own lack of stamina, my inability to exist joyfully at the full throttle pace of...
Stories
Sun is streaming through the windows as I wait for the first hummingbird to taste test the new batch of sugar syrup. Earlier, I watched as one by one they hover...
Feathered Gratitude
268. Grateful for the little hummers visiting me today. 269. For the little feet. 270. For the amazing wings. 271. For glints of iridescent red. 272. For the Cr...