A Welcome Message
Being a pastor’s wife doesn’t mean I climb mountains more than the average person, although hiking is a favorite activity in our family. The picture of our two sons was taken in the Colorado Rockies, where the five of us…
Just A Moment While I Change
With just a little over a week still to go before Christmas (apparently Hanukkah starts that very evening this year), I don’t need to add to your growing pile about all that, so while you’re enjoying however you’re getting or…
“Safeguarding Failures”
While it’s not guaranteed that people who attain high positions are worthy of admiration and respect, you can at least hope that whatever earned them their stature offers proof of their capability as well as moral rectitude. That’s what we…
Past Peak Now
It has been a spectacular month around here, with long stretches of sparkling days, fiery trees lit up by the sun, and full-moon nights. We’ll be sinking into the grays and browns of November just ahead, and we’d better muster…
Caring About Career, In Moderation
You know that feeling of sailing along, thinking you know where you stand on a particular subject, and then the direction of the wind changes and you have to scurry around the boat to make adjustments? (Won’t go into those,…
Unveiling a Statue, and a New School Year
Is it possible to bring any kind of lasting goodness from events that caused overwhelming loss? It was FDR who, on December 8th 1941, referred to the preceding day — when Pearl Harbor was attacked, bringing the United States into…
Why I Started All This
When you get what you asked for, it’s normal to feel happy/excited/relieved…as well as uneasy/anxious/unworthy. At least this is what I’m telling myself these days as I begin to work with the publishing company that has graciously agreed to get…
Come On Out to Hideaway
When you get swept up by phenomena that carry you away, claiming all of your attention, even when you know that there are a thousand other important things going on, urgent and troubling things, but also things that you can’t…
Marking Time, Conventionally
What are your preferred ways of marking time? I mean besides clocks for the minutes and hours, and calendars for the weeks and months. What kinds of happenings — events that come around every so often — or tangible things…
A Year From Now …
This manuscript will become an actual book launched into the world. It’s been a journey all right. When I started this blog, almost 13 years ago, I sensed that I was headed in this direction — kept a big blue…
Plants, Pentecost, and Playoffs
Sometimes, try as you might to make sense of how everything fits together — wanting one thing to be the piece that fills the empty space next to another piece, complementing it and maybe even lending additional meaning — you…