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“Music Soothes the Savage Beast” or Something Like That
I had no fear of turning 60, but I must admit I didn’t expect to spend the momentous day laid low with a nasty stomach virus. At least I had the empathy of a six-year-old friend: ”Oh, dear! ”...
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When You Look Into Their Hearts
Come Friday, our nest will be a little emptier. Son Number Three will throw a few boxes and bags into his Jeep and head south, an eight-hour drive to Nashville — the “country music” Nashville. Son...
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Finding the Forgotten Children in Honduras: Part Two
Homes fill the hillside in this photograph taken from our bus. We have only three days to reach out to the people living in the countryside outside Tegucigalpa, so today (Monday) we hit the ground...
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Finding the Forgotten Children in Honduras: Part Three
Today’s reflection comes from the heart of Madonna Snyder, a pastor at our church and a dear friend. This is her first mission trip to Honduras: Again today we made our way to the school soccer field...
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Finding the Forgotten Children in Honduras: Part Four
It is Wednesday afternoon and I should be at Finca Grace, playing games with the boys. But Chase has caught a bug and I feel my place is here, with the son who traveled all these miles to play with...
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Finding the Forgotten Children in Honduras: Part Five
“For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 God has His hands all over this mission to...
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Prayers for the Forgotten Children of Honduras
Houses clustered on the hillside outside of Tegucigalpa. A cloud sits on the mountain directly before me, hiding it from view. I’ve watched those clouds and mist hover and lift each morning this week...
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When Cancer Enters Your Landscape
My friend sat at her daughter’s bedside, holding her hand, whispering prayers as the daughter lay in the Intensive Care Unit. This young, single mother had just barely survived an automobile crash....
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What Is God Calling You To? And Will You Say Yes?
Theologian and philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously said “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” Bonhoeffer was referring to Christ’s call to a surrendered life…..to a life given over...
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What Will You Give?
One year it was chocolate. Another, caffeine. A couple of times, it was television. And growing up as a good Catholic girl, it was always meat on Fridays. What did you give up for Lent? Perhaps the...
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Living an Easter Sunday Life: On “To Do” Lists and Brokeness
My “Things To Do” list for this week is long, and there’s some important stuff on there. But this morning, my head is filled with another list that speaks to me of Eternity. We’re stepping into that...
View ArticleWhen What You Need Is God Straight-Up
I spent three days in the city worshiping and listening, then another three wishing I could be back in that place of joy and inspiration. I invested hours reading and writing about a movie and book I...
View ArticleWhen Faiths Collide: Finding Myself in Ash Wednesday
I stood in line for the symbolic smudge of ashes on the first day of Lent, unprepared for what that touch to my forehead would to do my heart. In the glow of candlelight, tears spilled unbidden. And...
View ArticleJourney Into Lent: Ashes of Mortality and Repentence
A year ago, I was God-struck by an Ash Wednesday service that took me back to another season, to the faith tradition that formed me. With Ash Wedneday and this new season of Lent approaching, I thought...
View ArticleA Prayer To Use My “Five Stones”
I heard Kathie Lee Gifford talk about it today, those words describing David’s assault on the giant in I Samuel 17:40: Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and...
View ArticleAt the Halfway Mark, Some Thoughts on Lent
We will celebrate the Resurrection of Christ in less than three weeks. Halfway through Lent, I’m pondering what the Lenten season means to me, and revisiting an experience from two years ago that...
View ArticleA Prayer To Use My “Five Stones”
I heard Kathie Lee Gifford talk about it today, those words describing David’s assault on the giant in I Samuel 17:40: Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and...
View ArticleWhen Faiths Collide: Finding Myself in Ash Wednesday
I stood in line for the symbolic smudge of ashes on the first day of Lent, unprepared for what that touch to my forehead would to do my heart. The post When Faiths Collide: Finding Myself in Ash...
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