So much good stuff this week! Ben and I dedicated Cadence last Sunday. Really, we dedicated ourselves as parents – which is rather intimidating, even though we’ve been parents for a year now. I am so thankful to be raising our daughter in such a wonderful community surrounded by so many who will faithfully point…
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(credit: Robyn Vining) She was the greatest little surprise I could never have even begun to imagine. My nose. Her father’s eyes. A personality all her own. I had been told all my life that motherhood was the ultimate fulfillment in a woman’s life. For me, it has been more…
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(credit) “I was a stranger and you welcomed me…” (Jesus in Matthew 25) Day by day I’ve been forcing myself to look, and then look again, and then look deeper. To walk away, disrobe myself of the mottled mix of European cultures turned middle class American mindset, and look yet again. With a thinner lens…
Read MoreI’ve started to catch myself doing it. I’ll say something funny provocative insightful. But I won’t let it stand on it’s own two feet. I won’t let the words ring with the undertones of the Holy Spirit within me. I cast a sideways glance. My eyes betray me. They speak…
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(credit) In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As we remember… As we reflect… As we find ourselves in a world so full of division and hate… Love. “Love is patient, it waits its turn and doesn’t give up. Love is kind, always looking for the best in people. Love doesn’t want what other…
Read More“There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.” And with this brilliant quote from Kurt Hahn, my journey into Carolyn Curtis James’ Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women begins.…
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