This Incarnate Faith
A friend of mine is having a baby. Now lots of my friends have had babies but mostly they coincided with me having my own. Now my baby is three and not actually all that babyish anymore. So when my friend told me she was pregnant I was thrilled for her and then had this... Continue Reading →
Ash Wednesday. When we remember that we from dust we came and from dust we return. It is a day to usher in the season of Lent. I have a powerful memory of my husband, just after we got engaged, walking up to the front of the little stone church on a dark cold... Continue Reading →
E, who is 6, and I were talking about how sometimes you do something that other people think isn’t right but you think is ok. The conversation came out of reading Beverley Cleary’s Ramona and Her Mother. E loves the Ramona books….I did too when I was a kid and the stories are like a... Continue Reading →
What is Spiritual Direction? Seems like a simple question, but sometimes I have trouble answering it succinctly. It's listening. It's walking with someone in their walk with God. In their questions and doubt and in their joys and big moments. It's sitting across or beside someone as they listen to their life. It's stories. It's... Continue Reading →
Advent. I’ve been thinking a lot about it this year. We never did much with Advent growing up. It was a word before “Calendar” and that meant cheap chocolate. That’s all I knew. It’s a time described as a time of waiting...or a time of hope... or a time of yielding or a time of... Continue Reading →
(I wrote this essay a few years ago on a different blog, but I came across it today and it seemed apt) I read an article by Cathleen Falsani in Sojourners earlier this year that talked about grace. She herself had read an article in a 1970's Playboy interviewing Jimmy Carter when he was running for office.... Continue Reading →
"And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus,... Continue Reading →
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