— 1 — Vacations = awesome. As much as I love my job, going back to work this week was a bit of a reality check. I think I may have gotten a little too used to never setting alarm clocks and reading all day. Reading 7 books in 7 days was lovely, and the…
— 1 — It’s finally spring/almost-summer in the Mid-West, and can I just tell you how happy that makes me? It has been warm and sunny for almost a week, and it’s like something within me that I didn’t even know had been wound so tightly is just slowly unwinding and relaxing. I know we…
I am incredibly thrilled to tell you that I have a guest post up today on Dan Brennan’s blog! One of Dan’s passions is helping the church foster a more healthy understanding of cross-gender friendship, and I’m so glad to be a part of the conversation! I’m especially glad because today I get to share…
— 1 — Can you believe it’s almost Easter already? Maybe it’s a gift that from year to year, I tend to enter this season with only a vague awareness that it’s going to be insanely busy, but with no real memory of what that actually means. Our Good Friday service is exactly 14 days…
Forty days in the desert can be a really long time. We fast from something during Lent for forty days because Jesus fasted forty days in the desert, and every year, our reasons for doing it vary. Some of us fast because it’s just what we do – it’s expected of us, or we always…
