It has become a family tradition that Sweet Man and I take the boys - at some point during the Christmas season - to see an Epic film.. The Hobbit, Star Wars, etc. This year we went to see Rogue One, and like so many people, I was taken with the phrase "Rebellions are Built on Hope". Why? I think because right now, more than ever, I am in need of hope, and I am in need of some fire in my ... View Post
Sunday’s Song – Famished and Filled
When your soul is famished and withering, He fills you with good and beautiful things, satisfying you as long as you live. Psalm 103:5, The Voice ... View Post
Great Expectations – A Sermon
Get behind me, Satan - Jesus This Sunday I preached my first sermon at our new church. It was also my first Sunday to preach three in a row and it was both exhausting and exhilarating. I am both grateful to have done it and to have it behind me (first times always make me nervous.) My text was Matthew 16:21-28 and Romans 12:9-21 and both were taken from the Revised Common ... View Post
Giving Up
This year for Lent, in addition to desserts, I am also giving up Doing Too Much. I am giving up Piling On. I am giving up Waiting for My Real Life to Happen. And I am cooking some amazing food. Read More HERE ... View Post
in the dark street shines: a holiday weekend recap
*the Zens 20th Year Reunion* Y'all last week was a booger. It was hard, and stressful, and there were a few times when I thought I might just lose IT at long last. That I might just finally come completely undone once and for all. More than once I played Sara Groves song, Peace, Peace, singing along with these lyrics, tears in my eyes. Peace, peace, it's hard to find Doubt comes like a ... View Post
Making-Do Christmas
It occurs to me now, sitting here, that the lyrics "tidings of comfort and joy" - the very lyric I have honed in on like a heat seeking missile this season- tells me two things. First it tells me that we need comfort, which must mean that something is wrong. Something is broken, hurt, wounded, sad. Otherwise, why would we need comfort? And secondly, that after comfort is joy. Which seems like a ... View Post
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