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July 2015

July 26, 2015

The Threshold of Trust

Once a week, I drive 45 minutes to another part of my city to play...

July 23, 2015

Remembering Our Single Mothers

When Travis has to go out of town, I quickly jump into single-mother-mode. He's gone...

July 19, 2015

A Lesson on Choosing: fear, tyranny & the plowshare

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid." --Frederick Beuchner...

July 16, 2015

Going Home (part three)

As someone who has moved a few times in her life and actually really loves...

July 08, 2015

Going Home (part two)

My in-laws say that after you live in a place and then move on, you...

July 06, 2015

Going Home (part one)

When you go back home, you get to walk back into spaces and worlds that...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Dinner at the River

"Where we are, not where we'd want to be, is where we must begin." --Brother...

June 19, 2015

Taking The Plowshare: prayers during pain

We've got the movie Selma sitting in its case downstairs. But I've been afraid to watch it....

June 09, 2015

The Good Soil of Reconciliation

Once, there was a son who wished his father dead, took his money, and ran....

June 01, 2015

The Journey of Benediction

"For all that has been, thanks. For all that is to come, yes." --Dag Hammarskjöld...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

The Simple Blessing of Servanthood

servant: a person who is devoted to or guided by something Sometimes servanthood is concentrated....

May 14, 2015

The Path Toward Beauty (an aesthetic adventure)

When the boys begin to smell like the stale heat, like the salty playground air...

May 02, 2015

Finding Place (and a mariachi band)

Sometimes a Friday night mariachi band makes you cry, because you know you've found your...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

What Our Layers Must Mean

We are so layered, each of us. For God to really know us, it means...

April 27, 2015

Two Days After the Stage (we’re still listening)

It's been two days since Listen To Your Mother, Atlanta. We all gathered into the...

April 06, 2015

The Other Community: a lesson on erasing lines

I've lived 26 years in this skin. So, you'd think by now, I wouldn't be...

April 04, 2015

The Easter Progression

For most of my life, Easter has been a one-day event, a whoop and holler...

March 2015

March 25, 2015

A Lesson in Place: where all shall be well

I have this little spot by our sunroom window that I love. I pulled our...

March 13, 2015

Out From Under The Covers: a lesson in surrender

There's just this strange and uncomfortable ebb and flow that happens in life, that happens...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Gifts Called Out: the church & who we’re asked to be

It takes time to come to that vulnerable and often cracked place that asks, What am...

February 10, 2015

We Are The Well

I've been feeling a lot like a well lately. The other night I lay wide...

February 05, 2015

The Kindness of Coffee

I drove to worship practice last night, my mind wandering to another reality as I...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

After The Harvest (When Words Are Few)

"Come, ye thankful people, come Raise the song of harvest home All is safely gathered...

January 17, 2015

Slow Speak

Often, when I pray, if I pray, it is a rushed and shallow-felt rendering of...

January 08, 2015

Adventure is Right Here

Travis sat across from me, that stern and determined look in his eye. Eliot says...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

Fighting the New Year’s Monster: Climb On

Every year after Christmas, my entire being finds itself in an odd funk, a strange...

December 12, 2014

The Pursuit of Seeing: The Glory Network

I have less than a handful of sister friends across the states who I can...

December 08, 2014

A Lesson in Christmastime Consumerism: The Re-gift of Ourselves

End the Regift Cycle. Give Them What They Really Want. On the Arvest Bank homepage,...

December 05, 2014

The Future For Our Children

Travis came home with a momento for Eliot, a sign from the silent protest that...

December 03, 2014

The Problem with Bystanding

I found it hard to breathe today. Maybe there was something in the air all...

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