Tag Archives: faith
Where is our [Christmas] Treasure?
Since our first son was born we’ve started thinking about what kind of traditions we want to have for our family, especially around the Christmas season. We’ve kept some from each of our families, and added some of our own, and overall we’ve wanted to set a certain tone for Christmas that will teach our […]
The Dough is Rising (even if you can’t see it)
I love to bake bread. Cooking isn’t exactly my favorite hobby, but I’ll happily stand for hours in my kitchen letting sticky dough cover my hands, it’s one of the few places I find peace. Even more so if I can share the process with little hands squishing (and usually eating) dough with me. There’s […]
Gazing at Ourselves
On occasion (when rotations involve a rare generous schedule) my husband offers to hang out with our boys on his day off so I can spend a few hours reading at a local coffee shop. It’s a time I treasure, when I get to drink coffee and pour over my stack of books without interruption, […]
Make Room
It is December 1st, a year has passed with groaning headlines, with triumph and failure, with peace and war, with love and wickedness. And after a year we come back to Advent again. We return to that stinking manger where the King was born. We stop amidst the chaos of the world and look again at […]
Corban University, Suffering and Hope
I was invited by a Corban University student to speak to a group of 140 young women. It was an honor, and in the midst of a world that groans with evil and suffering, it was a thing of beauty to stand before a roomful of women with passion, hope, and an eagerness to serve […]
Oceans Never Fill 