A few links to make your Thanksgiving better: Yummier: I don’t like turkey. In fact, I’d choose beef, ham, chicken every day of the week. Maybe that has to do with the fact that the famous white Albricht birds were…
{Join me for a Lectio Divina from this next Sunday’s lectionary below and listen to this great hope that we have from 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Subscribe on the right to receive a weekly lectio divina in your inbox and…
We are all transplants in this Kingdom, all ball of roots, shook out and replanted insecure, longing for our heart’s true home. We are adopted children of the most High who wander through the world with amnesia forgetting…
Technology and the way we are consuming information is resculpting our brains. It’s slicing and dicing our attention span. . In an article by writer Philip Yancey in the Washington Post called The Death of Reading is Threatening the Soul,…
(Links to Days 1-3 of our 31 Day Detox for the Tech-Weary Soul are located at the bottom of this post.) I grasped the three foot Easter Vigil candle and pulled it from its stand at the fire…
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Dear friends, every Tuesday we gather for a slow meal of manna, a lectio divina, straight from this next Sunday’s lectionary. Join the Slow Word Movement and subscribe to get a free how-to video to deepen your time in the…
Listen. Savor. Respond to God. “The Lord upholds all those who fall and lifts up all those who are bowed down.” Psalm 145:14 We were in a long season of exhaustion and I had lost hope we would ever…
It’s easy for us to view God through the grimy lens of our own imperfect parents. Honestly, it makes sense. It’s the only lens of love we’ve got. But the problem is that we have a horrible tendency to…
Listen. Savor. Pray. Are you feeling thirsty for more of the with-God abiding life? Here’s my story and why practicing God’s Presence has become one of the chief desires of my life: https://www.athirstforgod.com/tag/practicing-the-presence-of-god/ AND, by the way, did you know…