I have wondered about and wandered towards this day for four years. Late September 2020 we said yes to a call about a baby girl who needed a home. On October 5th, a resilient 8 month old arrived at our home wearing a pink dress …
My application to Yale Divinity School was rejected, but I got a free Yale coffee mug and an opportunity to walk through part of the campus at their YDS open house event. In awe of such a prestigious establishement, my friend and I meandered down …
Good Friday and Easter Sunday represent vastly different tones. Friday was bleak and somber death while Sunday was glorious and triumphant resurrection. But both days actually have something in common: the emptiness came first. The day that Jesus died, His followers would take His body …
I bought this cute block décor, but realize that its flowery words actually irk me. “Bloom where you are planted” is meant to conjure a visual reminder to flourish within our present season and circumstance, without comparing or competing or striving for what we don’t …
I didn’t want the new year to come. Everyone seemed to be ready for a fresh start, or minimally to put a little more distance between us and that blight of our existence, the year 2020. In fact, when Betty White passed just shy of …
Do you ever have a life-clarifying moment that forces you to ponder… “Is something seriously wrong with me?” Not in the, “I accidentally put my wallet in the fridge and the cheese in my purse” kind-of-way. In the way where you fear you might be …
As ownership of individual pronouns becomes normative, the idea of gendered language has become more intriguing to me. I ran into this unexpected article by CBE titled A Non-Gendered or Gender-Inclusive Faith: Lessons from Finnish and German. I was floored by the unexpected ramifications of …
“Have you tried setting up a clear morning and bedtime routine for him?” A counselor kindly offered suggestions when I told her my child was not sleeping well at night and then refusing to go to school in the morning. I smiled thinly, and said …
Have we ever been down a longer road of uncertainty, where the bends are so continuous that we can’t quite see around them to the destination beyond? At a global level, covid has created a mask over our eyes as much as our mouths; despite …
“This room looks so much bigger when it’s not divided.” My daughter and I had returned to our old home to pick up another load of belongings. She’d wandered into the now-empty room her brothers shared- the room that had once been literally divided in …