My Vacation 2017
Here are some scenes from my trip to Idaho. It was amazing, as it usually is, to spend time with this family. I find their company inspiring, entertaining, spiritually challenging, and meaningful. God knew what I would need when He brought JCM into my life! Highlights include thrifting on National thrift store day, homemade huckleberry…
Dig Deep
SO, I have this friend who forces me to dig deep. I have not done that in awhile. She is amazing and I am so blessed to spend Thursdays with her and I have come to cherish those times. So the question becomes how to duplicate or replicate this sweet event. How do I use…
RIP Dinah
So we had this cat. We got her in 1998 when she was a kitten and the kids were little. We named her Dinah after Alice in Wonderland’s cat. Dinah was mostly Emily’s cat. She loved to cuddle and sleep with us. She had a season of not being nice and we often told her…
A Theology of Suffering
Girlfriend night. Summer brought up a very interesting thing that God whispered to her and it got me thinking too. (I love how that happens!) This is not a theological position; that would be worthy of at least one volume and years of study. I was thinking about this after meeting at Girlfriend Night and…
Beach Glass
I love beach glass. I remember hunting for it with my Uncle John along the beaches in New England. Whenever we found a piece we felt like we had found a treasure, especially if it was a color we had not seen in a while. While people avoid broken glass because of its sharp edges,…
Kelsey’s Goodbye Farewell Amen
Dear Kelsey, These past four years have been good, but way too fast. I wish I had more time to compose my thoughts, but as I realize I have had time, it still would never be easier! I hate this part of my “job”! There really is no easy way to say goodbye to you.…
Counting on Earth
Counting to 10 using the Earth 1 earth – only 1 2 poles – only 2 (north & south) // 2 tropics – Cancer & Capricorn 3 climate zones – only 3 (Polar. Temperate. Tropical) 4 hemispheres and 4 winds – only 4 5 oceans – only 5. (Arctic, Southern, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian) 6 atmospheric…
When I retire
Now this is a subject I have not considered. And yet 2 friends are retiring this month and 2 others are going part time in anticipation of retirement soon. Is retirement a biblical concept? I don’t think so, but I don’t think that makes it wrong unless when you retire you actually retreat from the…
Sarah & Patrick!
So last week Sarah Noelle, my sister’s daughter, went on a vacation to Europe where her long time boyfriend romantically proposed in Paris in front of the Eiffel Tower. It hardly seems possible that she is old enough to get married; it seems like only yesterday she was playing with American Girl dolls and having…
Push reset and celebrate irrelevancy
My Current Rant: When I hear leaders who are barely out of college and with very limited experience, who are in a training position, comment that people in their mid to late twenties are too old to relate to students I feel even more marginalized than I am and how arrogant you are. When I…