I’ve been pondering what authenticity looks like in the life of a Christ-follower. It is so easy to try to look good to others, and then justify it, telling ourselves we[…]
28
Mar
2021
Year: 2021
28
Feb
2021
My finger poised over the send button, I paused, took a deep breath, and waited. Though Flyboy was urging me to press it, I wasn’t sure I could do it.[…]
21
Feb
2021
As we close out the first week of Lent, I’m compelled to talk about it here. I do not come from a tradition that follows the church calendar, but I[…]
8
Feb
2021
Having grown up in the “knowledge of the truth over those pesky and unreliable feelings” generation, I have struggled my whole life to really know and experience the love of[…]
4
Feb
2021
My readings take me to Genesis 32 today where Jacob wrestles with God through the night. I am puzzled by these words: 25 When the man saw that he could not[…]
1
Feb
2021
Note: This post is for those of you who are in my situation in life: we are in our final trimester before being born into eternal life. We’ve raised our[…]
25
Jan
2021
We are easily far enough into the new year to have broken all our resolutions, but this year is a little different for me. Having spent the past 3 1/2[…]
21
Jan
2021
It’s time to go home. While the weeks flew by, it feels at the same time that I’ve been here in Wisconsin forever. Our daughter-in-law Emily is in the throes of dangerously[…]
7
Jan
2021
Sometimes life just screams by and sometimes time stands still. It’s been a little of both these past two weeks with my son, daughter-in-law, and three granddaughters. We’ve stayed busy with[…]
4
Jan
2021
As we all look back at 2020, we each have our own stories. In our family, we’ve lived through a non-cancerous stomach tumor, surgery to remove a cyst and rebuild an[…]