Get Thirsty
Oh, to be like You, Give all I have just to know You Jesus, there’s no one beside You Forever the hope in my heart (Scandal...
Category: Spiritual Formation
When You Feel Spiritually Dehydrated…Again
I wasn’t allowed to go to church for three years. I lived in a remote area of China with one female teammate that I met with on Sunday mornings. We...
Where We Have Gone Sideways
Once upon a time a perfect woman had everything every hungry heart strives to pull from this Pintrest laden landscape of unmet expectations and Facebook-impossible standards. She was in a...
Keep Your Soul Well
Keep your soul well. That has been my word, or phrase, rather, of 2015. God led me to it through a plant. A year...
I Regret to Inform You That You Will Be Humbled
If I were to be honest, I’d tell you that in the very moment my “One Word for 2015” came to me, I knew I’d be in for it. I...
When Seeking Means Waiting
We are all seeking something, seeking more that seems just out of reach. There is a built in discontentment, a holy discontentment, if you will, within every person that forces...
How to Begin and End Well
It happens every year. I feel the crispness in the air. My schedule gets packed full of need to do's and have to do's and the joy gets sucked out...
Naming the Missing Pieces of Our Souls
I grew up in a faith tradition that sang acappella. Worship could arise in any place and any time: our voices were all we needed. We didn’t need advance planning....
Getting Smaller to Get Bigger
Book Club will resume next week. For a change of pace, and because December can be full, we're going to read four short stories you can get online. No need...
The Sacred Rhythm of an Ordinary Life
Our apartment is five stories above a major road in the city. When the windows are open in the spring and fall, the sound of cars zooming by becomes our...
