My Funny Valentine

There are a lot of qualities I believe go a long way in a relationship. Being a good listener. Possessing a consistent sensitivity to others. Having a relentless commitment to forgiveness. Also it helps if one of you is funny. This works out well for me since the love of my life also happens to [...]

The Child Asks Me a Question…

It starts and ends here: the child asks me a question. “Mommy, can you come to Friday chapel today?” my six year old says. I tell him that I would love to do it another time but that I can’t today. “Oh. Are you going to jail?” he asks. “Yes,” I tell him. And I [...]

Letters on Life, vol II

Dear… … rainy gray skies, you are beautiful. And though the lovely women who teach my precious children are no doubt feeling the brunt of your recess-thieving force, I am loving you. … Sonya Carson, I just read the first three chapters in the story of your son’s life. You remind me of the staggering [...]

“I lift my eyes up…” and the days that teach me to do it more

I see it in her face. Or rather, it’s what I don’t see in her face. She is in kindergarten, and I am at the neighborhood school where I help out, and we are walking the halls to a room where we will work on writing sentences. It is the first thing I notice about [...]

An Exchange Program… of sorts. Not really. But kind of.

Anyone who knows me knows there are a couple of things that I get all fired up about and perhaps even a little “John the Baptisty” about, and one of those things is children who are in need- and particularly the responsibility we share as followers of Christ to care for them. And not so [...]

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  • meditating on…

    John 19: 41-42
    At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

  • listening to…

    Hosanna
    with Christy Nockels on Passion's God of This City album