Naming the restlessness: Audrey Assad
You have made us for Yourself, Oh God, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You. St. Augustine I’ve been listening to a lot of Audrey Assad lately. I’m captivated by her articulation of our…
When your Soul Craves a Home, a vlog
Do you crave more? Do you crave home and knowing you have a place card at God’s table with your name embroidered on it? Me too. Yesterday I had the privilege of preaching in the strip district at Church of…
Searching for Resurrection
Crabapple trees in pink frills process down my new street. All winter I wondered what color they would wear. Their miniature crabapples fell onto the sidewalks and gave the early robins something to eat in the cold. Still, they kept their secret.…
Permission to Rest
You are allowed to rest. This is permission. Invitation. It had been a busy day, full of teetering stacks of laundry and ministry and the kind of slow exhaustion that makes one desperate for another cup of coffee…at 8…just to make it…
How to Make New Friends
It’s the phrase that runs through my mind before I meet a new friend at Starbucks or before I meet with a new spiritual directee. I watch the mom with the perfect hair in the atrium fiddling with her phone,…
Encouragement 101: Don’t Give Up
I see it in their eyes, the fast deflate. They had just pried opened their ribs and shown their blood-pulsing hearts to a primetime audience of millions…and they were not picked. And it is here that a decision…
How to Be Still and Know that He is God
The three R’s, it’s quickly becoming Maddie and my “thing” every morning…perhaps it’s because of her giggles…perhaps it’s because I know how much I need it too. Rest, Receive, Respond: these are the 3 R’s taught by Terry Wardle,…
Sabbath playfulness
May you enjoy a Sabbath full of letting go of heavy things. Play with color. Dance. Lie down on the carpet and listen to a gorgeous piece of music. Walk through the neighborhood feasting on the flowers pushing up. Perhaps…
Giving up Codependance for Lent
“All of these I will give you if you just fall down and worship me,” Matthew 4:9. Teased and smeared, heart smacked down in the halls of a Jr. High, I began to overcompensate at church, at home….everywhere. I lived…
What’s Nourishing Me this Month
1. Ever have a recipe that is so decadent you hoard it just for the oooohs and ahhhs? This is mine. The kids adore it at home but I call it Adult Mac and Cheese when I bring it to parties.…