Vast and Amazing and Unimaginably Ginormous

I'm at a YouthWorks training this week. People from all over the place are going to work together this summer. We come from different states and regions. It turns out people in the South handle conflict differently than people in the East. And this is important! And it helps us grow. I am so grateful …

A Prayer for Donald Trump

A couple of months ago we made Prayer Jars at Bible Study. We decorated the outsides and filled them up with little pieces of paper. On the pieces of paper are the names of people we want to pray for. Every day - well, most days - I pull out a little piece of paper …

Lent this Year

I know that Lent is almost upon us because today my Michigan friends were posting pictures of paczkis on Facebook. And yes I had to look up how to spell that word. Growing up Baptist Lent was not something I observed or practiced or even knew anything about. Once my world expanded a little bit …

The hard work of starting over

This morning I woke up and as it is my day off, decided to not get out of bed for a while. So I watched Dylan Marron's YouTube channel for a while, scrolled through Facebook, etc. I also got up 4 times to answer the phone for work related calls and got increasingly grumpy every …

My Cold and Broken Hallelujah

Two years ago the acapella group Pentatonix released their first Christmas album. Last year I pretty much played Mary Did You Know on repeat for the entire month of December. If you haven't heard their Christmas songs, get out from under your rock and YouTube it. Their rendition of Little Drummer Boy is the only …

We really can do hard things

You know all those bible verses we quote like, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," and, "Nothing is impossible with God," and, "I do it all for the glory of God"? And you know how I'm always saying we can do hard things? Well it turns out that actually living out …

Passports and mountains

One time a very concerned and loving dad brought his son to Jesus. His son had been suffering violent seizures for his entire life. This dad was hoping that Jesus could heal his son. This dad was hoping that he wouldn't have to continue to watch his son's body betray him and put him in …