5 Podcasts to Nourish Your Life Right Now
Slingstones with Terry Wardle When I was in Jerusalem last June, I had the Sabbath off to roam the city. It was a ghost town. The usually packed market was closed and buttoned up. The streets had a…
10 Things I Learned in August
I’m joining the fabulous Emily Freeman in sharing 10 things I learned this August weaving back and forth from silly to serious. This is the summer vacation edition. 1. First, I need to just keep pushing the publish button. Keep putting words on paper.…
Eleven Things I Learned in May
I’ve been silent a good while. Listening. Wrestling. Homeschooling. I’ve taken that leap again…she who said she would never…ever homeschool…again. But after our move to GA Madeline was drowning with math that didn’t make sense and a month into our semester…
Day 19: Lift up Empty hands
We often live anxiously searching for our needs to be filled. Moving intensifies that. I wrote this post last year. It still applies. Today’s action? Lift up your needs to the Father using the prayer printed at the end. Don’t be afraid…
Day 13: Lamenting or How to Give our Negative Emotions to God
Three weeks ago I looked across to Andrew reading in bed and wondered out loud when we would be allowed to go home. I was done with this moving thing. Our neighborhood pool had just closed for the autumn, he was beginning to travel again,…
Re-igniting when our Flame Flickers Low
Welcome friends to Word-Seeds. Here we take a step into the Scripture, read the gospel for Sunday morning, prepare our hearts. This week, read here first: Matthew 5:13-20. Stop at pictures ? They are wide open spaces for contemplation in the middle of…
When We are Confused by our Calling
Welcome to Word-seeds dear friend. This is where we pray the Scripture roots into every crevice and crack of our life, breaks up the hard ground. Word seed is a Bible study that may take longer than a day. We wind…
The Gift of Vulnerability – The leper and my story entertwine
“All of us are old. And all of us are frail. All of us, indeed, are handicapped. It’s just that some of us can pretend better than others.” John Kavanagh Mark 1:40-45 All around the Galilee region the wind…