My mom—the day before she drove herself two hours from southern Minnesota to a Twin Cities hospital, where she was admitted due to two...

I was seven verses into a Psalm before I remembered. It was Election Day. Somehow I’d managed to brew a pot of coffee, and take a longish...

“It’s a blessing with one tiny little curse.” This was Grant’s comment regarding parents with lake property. He’d just helped his dad...

A beautiful thing happened this week, a gift from God. It started while we were still at the townhouse, last days of sharing space with...

I am in my final weeks of being fifty-two—for the second straight year. LOL. But no kidding. A whole year I’d been aging myself until...

There is a difference between repentance and confession. I learned this (again) this past week. It started with my last blog post, about...

I was with friends and family last weekend, when the topic of my recent “resignation” came up. A brother-in-law asked about my decision,...

If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength! Proverbs 24:10 It was everywhere in my readings this morning. Proverbs....

“My friends say there will be a civil war after the election.” My youngest son, visiting from college, looks up from his fish taco to...

I sat in silence in my church office, Thursday evening, cleaning out file folders, unused and expired, and I don’t know when I’ve ever...

After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were...

“You talked a lot about the upside-down kingdom.” Stephen remembers out loud, at the lake on Friday. My brother is there with his family...

I’ve been weirdly hopeful this week. Like maybe these things that look like breaking are really rebuilding. Maybe this chaos is really...

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven… Hasn’t this prayer become our heart’s cry in all this world’s mess?...

Yikes. This whole COVID thing has me grappling with politics, which believe me, is not my MO. I am, for better or worse, quite content to...

A couple of years ago I read an article in Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Journal. The edition was themed around spring cleaning and the piece I...

I refuse to let this consume my thoughts. The first time I said it I was video-recording an AWANA lesson, first weeks of the Coronavirus....

We’ve been having some interesting conversations lately—my husband and I. Not, as far as I can tell, related to quarantine. (Oh, there...

I now understand why the law could never save us. I was convinced before, but now I’ve got proof. Evidence in the form of yesterday’s...

Honestly. I’ve wondered a hundred times if it was selfish of us. If it was terrible timing. Selling their childhood home right out from...