Tuesday morning, My Sweetie woke me with a video clip… …of Baby C, walking like a champ on his very 11-month birthday. (People who walk early have Places to GO, so I’m adding extra prayers for D&B!) Wednesday morning, my B arrived, happy and tart-tongued, ready for a proper breakfast. In the small hours, while […]
A pastor friend, now deceased, once gave me this clipping from a local newspaper from the 1950s. I can find no source for it, but I believe it is helpful in making sense of suffering. Suffering is not God’s desire for us, but it occurs in the process of life. Suffering is not given to […]
…and the people did as they pleased… [A] certain Levite, residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. But his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four […]
I’m thinking about bodies. About fingers, toes, skin, muscles, moving, sleeping, kissing. I have to write a short paper about Christology for school (good thing it has to be short!), and the facet I’m intrigued by is: Jesus was a particular person. Just like I am a particular person, but also not like me at […]
[Why haven’t I posted this before? I don’t know, why haven’t I posted this before?! First written in February 2016.] Start with small people and small things, if you can. If you have a “My do it MY-SELF!” person, so much the better — let My tackle all the things where the outcome isn’t a […]
My daughter A was in a multi-car pileup—really more of a matryoshka accident, where her component was her complete stop and the car behind her’s not-quite complete stop. She did all the good things: called her mom, started the conversation with, “I’m fine; we’re all safe, but…,” did as the police officers asked, exchanged information. […]
Your Reckoning. And Mine. As stories about abuse, assault, and complicity come flooding out, how do we think about the culprits in our lives? Including, sometimes, ourselves. —By Rebecca Traister “This is different. This is ’70s-style, organic, mass, radical rage, exploding in unpredictable directions.” “[…]But it’s also harrowing because it’s confusing; because the wrath may […]
Somehow, when I applied my rubric to today I never got past #2. But there was a lovely long convo with the recently-birthday girl. Besides, I’m still sore from Saturday+Sunday.
By all reports, on this the evening of her twentieth birthday—one hour after the exact anniversary of her birth, in fact!—my B is an Enneagram One. While I was working in the yard this weekend (almost all weekend!), the podcasts I listened to included Typology’s Episode 16, “Sleeping At Last: Grace Requires Nothing of You.” […]
It’s about this time now. Too early to be done with a day, but there it is-! This illustration is taken from A Net to Catch Time by Sarah Harrell Banks and illustrated by Scott Cook. We got it in a box of prizes that A once won from our amazing independent bookstore, BookPeople. I […]
