These past two days have been stuffed with wonderful things to think about and stern challenges for me to comprehend and then move with. None of which are yet ready to be written, even though that’s where my brain is busiest! So in the meantime, I’ll share this prayer, first offered by Howard Thurman: Give […]
I was chatting with A yesterday as she did a little shopping at Target. I don’t remember whether she was in the cat treats section or the dental floss when she fumed, “What is with all these choices??!? I hate shopping.” Yesterday I mentioned “multipotentiality,” and today I blundered on a scribbled list […]
I think about ‘calling’ a lot, particularly mine. ‘Calling’ as in the combination of activity and presence that is uniquely yours, that you have a responsibility to do (because of its uniqueness), that God calls you to do. I think about my calling a lot because my…what’s the current phrase?…multipotentiality offers me a wide array of […]
My darling sister sent me this; it’s fun+interesting, and you should listen BUT before you do that, I, too, want to talk about “explanatory commas.” Me, I had thought they were called “asides,” those breaks from the main flow of whatever to explain a little, or round out the topic, or make a snarky remark […]
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. –Philippians 4:7, NRSV … Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of […]
I’m reading Thomas Pikkety’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, as you may know. I also had the recent good fortune to spend a weekend with an economist–newly minted, but nevertheless good at what he does. I’m fascinated. I can listen, and follow, and ask questions–even good ones!– but when the interchange stops, I can say […]
God gave a name to God’s covenant-people: Israel. The same name God added to Jacob, who wrestled on the banks of the Jordan with “a man” and demanded a blessing from that one. Isra-El, Wrestler-of-God. I don’t know anything more than this. I expect that to know would be another of those large research projects […]
Did I tell you? Have I showed you the pictures yet? I haven’t? Hang on, they’re right here on my phone. I have? Have you seen the new ones? I have new ones… On Dec 21, 2017, at oh-my-gracious-really? in the morning, Baby C arrived in the wide world. My boy D and his darling […]
Picking out my outfit for worship, I decided the top was a leetle too much…the neckline cut away, and needed a strapless bra. And the necklace I’d been thinking of, Italian glass in brilliant colors, seemed more for evening than a sunny morning. I went with something a little less fab. As it is, I […]
For five? years now I’ve been participating in Abbey of the Arts’ Give Me a Word practice. For me the practice has a similar feel to biblical sortes, because the word chooses you, not you the word. This may not make any sense to you, but it really works like that. In fact, this year my […]
