The Already But Not Yet
Between the unshakeable certainty that one day every broken thing will be made new and the overwhelming hurt and pain of this life. Immanuel.
2022 – There is no shoe.
I don't know where you land on the Enneagram. (Here's a great book for beginners. Also, here's a quiz.) I'm solidly a 6 with a 5 wing. In a nutshell, it means I have a bajillion worst case scenarios in my head at any moment. Seriously. They play over and over. It's...
How to un-overwhelm yourself
Every year, it happens. I get the school calendar, Wednesday night church activities dates, tennis practices and matches, band rehearsals and parades - to say nothing of my own schedules and activities. I hear the gloriously open boxes on the calendar start to whine...
Theological Thursdays – Hope Nazi
I'm stuck in a badly written dystopian novel. What else do you call conversations about vaccines, their potency, forced quarantines and how the health department wants me to get a vaccine simply so they have a paper trail? I was ranting to my hubby. "If I wasn't...
In the Raw – Finding Home
I never expected Woodland Mall to feel like coming home. We walked in a bit early for our appointment with the Apple Store - because you can't just walk in the store anymore, thank you Covid. Others with my particular skin tone were just one of many shades around me...
Theological Thursday – Theodor Seuss Geisel
Did you know that his publisher bet Ted that he couldn’t write a book using only 50 words? The result was Green Eggs and Ham. Did you know Horton Hears a Who was published after Horton Hatches the Egg? I always figured Horton sat on the egg because he remembered a...