When Life isn’t Disneyland

I have watched cranes take flight over lapping water and monkeys play on the sandy beaches of Lake Victoria. I have warmed by turquoise waters under the Caribbean sun, have watched seal and dolphin swim south along the California coast of  Zuma. I have hiked mountains among the moss-covered boulders and towering firs of Canada’s [...]

Seasons of NINE YEARS…

Many of you have heard that we were in San Antonio this weekend for their independent Christian film festival and that we were thrilled for Seasons of Gray to win the Audience Choice Award for best film at the festival. We were so encouraged by the kind words and overwhelming supportive responses of so many. [...]

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 [...]

“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