Daily Step – A Prayer for Patience
Patience. This week I’m praying a lot for the grace of patience. Patience with myself, and patience with others. Patience with the struggles of this year....
September 2, 2020
Daily Step – “Catastrophizing”
Catastrophizing. This word was the subject of two random podcast episodes I listened to last week. Both hosts were talking about their habit of “catastrophizing” situations....
September 1, 2020
Daily Step – It started as a picture.
It started as a picture. Right before this school year started, I got the crazy idea to redo a room in a weekend. It actually took...
August 31, 2020
Sunday Stride – We aren’t called to suffer alone.
I almost didn’t write a reflection for this Sunday. The readings are about the necessity of suffering, not an easy topic. I read the readings readings...
August 29, 2020
Daily Step – What can you put down today?
It has been a crazy week. That’s kinda a funny line to start with in 2020. Funny because it could literally be true every week since...
August 28, 2020
Daily Step – For all who need a little hope.
Some say hope is hard to find these days. I can understand where they are coming from. Especially this morning as we wait to access the...
August 27, 2020
Daily Step – Have we forgotten?
Yesterday, an adventure involving robin’s eggs and dinosaurs went on behind me as I worked. As we wait for the boys school to start up, my...
August 26, 2020
Daily Step – Using what we have to bring hope.
Two plastic flowers sit in a homemade vase on my desk – a sign of hope and light. I was sitting on the couch this weekend...
August 25, 2020
Daily Step – Remember it’s not always about the final product.
I’ve had these geometric shapes since my first year of teaching 18 years ago. I think a professor gave them to me (memory fades after so...
August 24, 2020
Sunday Stride – Even “the rock” had cracks.
God is calling us to big things. Huge. And as we discern what those are, let us remember what God is not calling us to –...
August 22, 2020