Tolerating Bad Feelings

For the last 6 weeks I have been thinking about and drafting this post about feelings.  I don’t know exactly why it has taken so long and been so difficult.  I might have imagined something more spiritually ambitious, but I am finally breaking down the topic to...

One Year In Colorado

We just crossed the one year mark of moving into our home in Pine, Colorado.  The year has been full–with traveling, with hosting family and friends, with shopping to furnish rooms, with exploring our area…  Some of you have read my posts on moving.  When something is...

Real Life Meditations on Mark 6

Bill and I just hosted our whole family  at our house in the mountains for one week.  That meant fourteen of us (and a dog) in our four bedroom, three bathroom house – nine adults and five children between 5 and 9.  I asked a group of women from my church to...

The Rhythm of Trouble

In my last post, I wrote about living flexibly, in order to be useful.  Since then circumstances have forced me to consider another challenge to my flexibility, which is trouble or difficulty.  Trouble can take many forms.   One difficulty for me is from my own...