We swing our hips, the coins sewn to our hip scarves jingle and we are transported. And how we crave our weekly passport stamped! We are living in a Western Michigan Winter. The frigid cold has taken over our sweet…
Here at the little yellow cottage, it’s hard not to dance our thanks: 1. English Premier League. Waking up to Tottenham and Queens Park Rangers instead of Saturday morning cartoons. 2. Milk, whey protein and blueberry smoothie with chia seeds for…
To Listen: To live empty, open, hands up receiving To surge in breaths of God truth, To abide in God one wing covering another. To breathe out focused: the Presence of God is HERE, always Here… Always speaking, and me?…
We are still warmly ensconced with family here in snowy southeastern Pennsylvania. The children, their daddy and grandpa are all playing a nerf gun war outside this bedroom and I have shut the door firmly to escape the mayhem for a…
I schlep my ipad to the fitness center and have been biking and ellipticalling (definitely not a real word! Creative license?) to Leonard Sweet’s book, The Jesus Manifesto, and I find even after my normal 35 minutes, I don’t want to…
Kenosis was just like a sandbox, we decided in our theology class. I remember rubbing my forehead, trying to wrap my mind around a foreign Greek word. We searched for images we could comprehend and did what any self-respecting theology…
After school I pulled Madeline onto my lap and we sunk deep into the red bean bag chair. I memorized the smell of her hair and the beautiful dimple that comes out in her left cheek when she’s being tickled…
Annunciation By Denise Levertov ‘Hail, space for the uncontained God’ From the Agathistos Hymn, Greece, We know the scene: the room, variously furnished, almost always a lectern, a book; always the tall lily. Arrived on solemn grandeur of great wings,…
Promises are strewn throughout the Bible like buried jewels. Built on the scaffolding of God’s character, these promises prove firm… sure… trustworthy. Something you can build a life on. I mine them in the early morning hours, searching for hope. This…
1. I was daydreaming after the kids were in bed perusing this site full of French farmhouse design eye candy. This interview of Yvonne McGrane, a business woman, mom and designer, held an interesting insight I’ve been rolling around in my mind:…