Reason to celebrate
“Pause here. Listen. Look.” Last week I wrote of the unexpected benches in our lives inviting us to pause and really look before hurrying on. This week transition has been one…
How to learn to trust (OR Good news about the God leading us into this year)
Several weeks ago, I heard someone use four words to describe God. They’re not a complete description, of course—all the words in the world couldn’t accomplish that—but they’re true and…
Fifty days of surprise: an invitation to see
There is a tree out the back of my place, a gnarled, moss-covered tree, looking, when I first saw it, half-dead. It had its own beauty, I suppose, but I…