It is very exciting for me that our family will be welcoming bees to our backyard this week as we embark on caring for our own hive. This is something that I have been researching and preparing to start for the last year. However, by January, I realized beekeeping was going to be one more […]
Love Abounds
1 Thes 3:12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. “What do you mean you want to go to New York to work in a COVID 19 intensive care unit? What if you don’t make it home?” Those were my […]
Where Joy Resides
“Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss all the joy is to miss all.” -Robert Louis Stevenson. It all started with three pitiful brown bananas. They sat, knowing they weren’t going to get eaten. No one wanted them now–it was even too late to blend them […]
Permission to Grieve
“We can obey commandments, believe doctrines, and attend church services all our lives and still daily lose our souls if we run from the necessary cycle of loss and renewal.” Richard Rohr At the first stroke of the guitar on our live Facebook chapel, tears filled my eyes. It was unexpected and caught me off […]
Gift of Time
“Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from our life. Hurry and Love are incompatible.” Before all of this Covid-19 thing started to happen, I was reading a book called “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry” by John Mark Comer. It was hitting my core so strongly that I wrote a line from it on my chalkboard in our kitchen. […]