The Gift of Peace
How many of you watched the world cup this year? How many of you know what a vuvuzula is? To roughly describe it, a vuvuzula…
Katie Z.
taking the first steps to healthy
I might have posted something about this before… but pastors, in general, and in the Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, in particular,…
The Gift of Joy
How many of you are happy all the time? Every waking minute of your lives? C’mon now… raise your hands! No one? No one at…
KEEPER!
A fellow pastor has a blog entry entitled “keepers” for this week. My blog post will be nothing like his. Although, his made me think…
you can’t please everyone…
I’m coming to realize that one of my greatest weaknesses is trying to please everyone. I have a very terribly hard time saying no. I…
The Gift of Love
This week, my husband and I had two houseguests… our niece and nephew. They had the distinct honor of being able to have a sleep…
being hit on
**note: this post feels really disjointed. I’ve been thinking about writing this for days now and it is just as scattered as my thoughts on…
BE the church
This morning we find ourselves in the midst of a pretty familiar story. It is a story of contrasts… the holy man on one hand…