This is my Body
This week I have been working with 30 students and one of my colleagues on an Urban Plunge program. We have structured this program a couple...
June 20, 2019
Mud and a Moment of Levity
I’m pretty sure my sons love mud. I mean LOVE mud. Really anything dirty and equally as distinctive as the brown slime after a rainstorm. Case...
June 18, 2019
Opening the door to hope
This summer I decided to take an online Introduction to Book Writing course. It took me months to turn the decision over in my head –...
June 15, 2019
Look for the helpers
This past Sunday, I was sitting inside looking out our porch windows at my boys chasing each other with water guns and splashing in a shallow...
June 11, 2019
A celebration of difference – Pentecost Sunday
“I don’t want to be different.” How often have we felt these words? Uttered these words? Or been struck by these words coming from the mouth...
June 7, 2019
Growing in Joy!
Last Saturday, my boys and I went to a baseball game for my oldest son. It was hot, humid, and admittedly, mommy was already starting off...
June 4, 2019
The Ascension – a video reflection
I have been reflecting in writing weekly on the Sunday Scriptures since the first Sunday of Lent this year. I have found it to be a...
May 31, 2019
Anxiety, Traffic, and the Lord
I can not stand to be late. I don’t know why or if I have always been this way, but being late drives me crazy. It...
May 24, 2019
Words and grief
Over 15 years ago, I was barely 22 years old and it was my first year teaching. Over the summer, I had gotten word that two...
May 20, 2019
With the expressive love of a child.
Each night as I kiss my twins goodnight, they pick that exact time to tell me everything they can remember about their day. “Mama, I need...
May 17, 2019