Seven Amazing Ways Our Puppy Taught Me How to Be Happy
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s hard to be cross with someone who exhibits that much enthusiasm for life. Misery may love company but tail-wagging creates a party.
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How to Walk with God, Literally
Reading Time: 5 minutes When I was ten, I tried to invent the zip-line! Instead I broke my tibia and fibula. A compound fracture. …
20 (unusual) Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection
Reading Time: 3 minutes One man who had no Facebook page, Twitter feed, or social media platform AT ALL has not one but TWO major holidays to commemorate him. And a bunch of other stuff too.
How to Help God Transform Your Fear to Hope
Reading Time: 5 minutes Fear not! God has been here before. God stands ready, waiting for us—the orchestra—to pause and let the Soloist play. Unfortunately, if we play on, heedless to the signal, we leave God no room to perform. The musical score lies before us. Our participation with God in the silence can transform our fear to hope. The choice is ours.
Simple but Powerful Daily Disciplines for Thriving in this Crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutes The experts say washing your hands and keeping social distance are key to staying physically healthy in this crisis. Amen! But are there less obvious, more abstract daily disciplines that will help us navigate these turbulent and dangerous times?
What Anorexia Taught Me About Control: How Control Promises More than it Can Deliver
Reading Time: 6 minutes It was as if she’d been diagnosed with terminal cancer, a cancer of the soul. We were shattered and terrified. Still we mobilized. We took control.
How to Hope in the New Year
Reading Time: 5 minutes When regret becomes chronic, we become bound to the past, a past that no longer is and that we have probably misinterpreted. Hoping backward then leads to anger, anxiety, shame, false guilt, powerlessness, and an inability to make decisions. We become neurotic ghosts.
Waiting for Communion Holy Saturday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Waiting. How did Jesus’ disciples feel on that dark Saturday after Jesus was crucified? Remembering the emptiness, grief, fear, disbelief, …
Finding God’s Grace in an Aspen Grove
Reading Time: 2 minutes Above me aspens climb the sky Knobbly fingers intertwine Creating a lattice of quivering lace Painting yellow hue on …
Hitler, Mother Teresa, and Me
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have this recurring day dream where I’ve died and gone to heaven. I’m standing in line, in the clouds, …