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Reflection Questions for a Year of Covid and Shaping A Life Beyond
This season clergy, therapist, teachers and community leaders are guiding communities through two major milestones--processing the one year anniversary of Covid’s drastic reshaping of our lives and the thoughtful reflection as to what is next as more and more people...
Book Review & Giveaway: Twas The Morning of Easter
If you have been a reader for a while you know that I am a fan of the children’s books that Glenys Nellist creates for young readers. So I was delighted late last year to discover that her book Twas the Evening of Christmas had been developed into a series of books...
Winter 2021 Reading Recap
I always find it interesting how each season of my reading life is so different. When I do my reading recaps each season, I can tell you exactly what kind of head space I was in the past three months. This winter (December, January and February) reading took the side...
Interview with Sarah Griffith Lund and Blessed Union
As we settle into the end of winter blues and approach the start of our second year living with a pandemic, this month’s author interview feels incredibly timely. Many of my friends are talking about mental health, but not many of them feel comfortable talking about...
Diamonds and Dust: An Ash Wednesday Meditation
“And, lo, the star which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.” -Matthew 2:9, NKJ The first book I picked up in 2021 was Father Gregory Boyle’s second book Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical...
5 Lighthearted Books with Substance
A few weeks ago I was on a Zoom happy hour with my girlfriends when one of them declared “I wish I liked your book recommendations but you like serious and heavy stuff and right now I really need something light!” Honestly, I love when I get book recommendations wrong...
What to Bring to the Hospital When Your Child Is Scheduled for (Heart) Surgery
With a child who has had multiple open heart surgeries, we have become veterans at overnight hospital stays. After living in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU once for twelve days and another stay where I found myself in the ER with a 30% charged cell phone and a wallet,...
Steady Sundays: Sabbath Practices to Shape a Steady Presence and Life
This year my word is steady. I aim to be steady in my partnering and parenting, steady in my ministry and writing. Steady in showing up for the people, moments and movements that matter. The word steady didn’t come to me from nowhere--it showed up as an extension of...
Start Close In by David Whyte
My conversation with author Ellie Roscher about her most recent book 12 Tiny Things: Simple Ways to Live a More Intensional Life was so much fun, I hope you check it out. The whole time I was reading the book I kept thinking of the poem Start Close In by the poet and...
