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December 2012

December 06, 2012

My Favorite Things, 2012 version

For some reason, my annual "Favorite Things" lists (2010 and 2011) get far less press...

November 2012

November 16, 2012

Praying for our friends

Bill and I were supposed to be in Jerusalem this week for a Caspari board...

October 2012

October 06, 2012

October 7, 1979

Weeks before our October 7, 1979 wedding, Bill and I headed with our wedding photographer...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

You mean I have to THINK about how I’ll spend my vote?

Oh, for the good old days of being a "Values Voter". It was so easy...

August 2012

August 24, 2012

I wonder as I wander

I've lived in nondescript subdivisions (beige house, beige house, beige house, lather, rinse, repeat) for...

August 07, 2012

Gold, silver, bronze and fourth

Q. What do these people have in common? Rares Dumitrescu Stepanka HIlgertova Rick Van der...

July 2012

July 02, 2012

Like Being At My Own Funeral, Kind Of

A few months ago, my sister told me she was making me something for my...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

Piper, Israel and me

This week, Christianity Today's website featured the first round of volleys between David Brickner, the...

June 11, 2012

Short sale by the numbers

It is finished. Thanks be to God. The contracts have been inked, the checks exchanged....

May 2012

May 20, 2012

Shalom once again, Israel

Our fifth trip to Israel is nearly done, and it ended with perhaps the most...

May 14, 2012

This isn’t ‘Jeopardy’, it’s Israel

Though I'm not a fan of the genre, the one TV game show I have...

May 08, 2012

A Different Kind Of Mother’s Day Prayer

"A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God...

May 05, 2012

File under: The More Things Change…

Circa 1985. It is a journal entry. Apparently, I walked out of a women's Bible...

April 2012

April 27, 2012

Falling Upward, Chapter 8

I’m blogging through Father Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward: A Spirituality Through The Two Halves Of...

April 22, 2012

Festival of Faith & Writing: Ten Quick Observations

Every two years, readers and writers flock to the campus of Calvin College in Grand...

April 09, 2012

(Let’s go to the) Blog Hop!

Today, I am participating in the "Best Thing Blog Hop," an event hosted by writer...

February 2012

February 19, 2012

Stairway to heaven

This morning at church, the message was from Genesis 12, God's call of Abraham. The...

February 10, 2012

The more things change…

A few observations: (1) This was the last time I let my hair go...

February 05, 2012

Parents, you can not predict the future. You know that, right?

I had one of those time-transcending moments last night in a warehouse in Chicago. Travel...

December 2011

December 30, 2011

The lessons of 2011

2011, it's been an interesting trip `round the sun with you. Before you turn into...

December 22, 2011

One sweet tradition

Twenty-nine Christmases ago, our first child was a little baby girl just about able to...

December 20, 2011

In those days at this season

When I was a kid, Chanukah meant eight nights of presents, wrapped in shiny blue...

December 10, 2011

My favorite things, 2011 version

If Oprah can create a list of "favorite things", I decided that I could, too....

November 2011

November 23, 2011

A simple gift for you this Thanksgiving

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free / 'Tis a...

November 02, 2011

Book review: Bound For Glory

I want to celebrate the incredible gift of music that African Americans gave to the...

October 2011

October 26, 2011

Move over, Barney Fife

My big, beefy imagination is usually overkill for most of the tasks requiring creativity in...

October 11, 2011

Get up and keep skating

Life lesson learned: If you are a Birkenstock girl, you should not slide on a...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

Shelf time – Part 2

Have you ever been shelved after a period of active ministry? Click here to read...

September 27, 2011

Have you ever been shelved?

A friend who'd been a women's ministry leader in her former church told me sadly...

September 21, 2011

…the rest of the story

Have you ever wished you could say 'Thank You' to someone whose words years ago...