Positivity and Holy Unhappiness
I have been thinking over two responses to my last blog post. One person said generally that my friend’s positive response to her dire illness was hard to relate to and she would have liked to know more of the process of struggle to arrive at that place of...
Imagine Heaven!
I just finished reading Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You, by John Burke. Although I read a variety of different types of books and perspectives, this is not a book I would have chosen for myself. I...
The Grace of Hospitality
Bill and I recently traveled to Texas to have three gatherings for PCF alumni, in Houston, in Waco and in Dallas. We are not spectacular forward planners; we began to communicate with alumni about one month in advance. As a consequence, we were very uncertain who...
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 pray for...