A Living Redemption
In life, all of us take our turns trying to answer difficult questions. Deep questions like, “How can a good God allow pain and suffering?” Or some far less weighty but born out of true frustration like, “Why on earth is it necessary for English to have so many verb forms?” And then there’s this […]
I’m Going To Stop You Right There
I watched the counselor take notes, glancing up at me from time to time as I unloaded my life story- all the things I’d done, places I’d been, plans I had, and worries about the future. I fed her lots of information but held back my heart. I didn’t want her to know how exhausted […]
All Things
A few years after my husband and I got married, we moved away from family to go to seminary. Both my husband and I were taking graduate classes and he was working a full time, minimum wage job. I was struggling as a mother and we were struggling in marriage. Neither of us were actively […]
Hold Fast to Hope
As a kid there was this boy in town that we called Baltha Dorch. Baltha means “stupid” and it was easy to tell that he had some mental difficulties. Although, to this day, I wonder if he was born that way, or if the harsh abuses and neglect in his life facilitated his mental deficiencies. […]
This Week’s Theme: Redeem
He is making all things new. In the messy middle when things feel murky and dark, it can be hard to remember. But that is what we are doing this week as we prepare for the celebration of hope that marks us as followers of Jesus. We will remember that He came to redeem us […]