My step-mother-in-law, Sue, is a nurse. Not a floor nurse, but someone who works with cardiac cases to determine and support best practices for the hospital… if I’m explaining that right. In any case, she noticed when her husband was starting to get pale while working out. She pushed him to get a stress test. …
Shine Like Stars
Imagine No Malaria Guest Sermon – Advent 2 When we lit our advent candles just a few minutes ago, we were reminded that not everything in our scriptures is full of sunshine and roses. Luke’s vision of the coming Messiah includes terrible signs and distress among the peoples. As the Message translation of these…
Life on the Road
When I accepted the position as a coordinator of Imagine No Malaria, someone asked what it was like to no longer be serving a church. My response back was that I’m not serving one church… I’m serving nearly 800 of them! It is exciting to be working with so many new people and communities of…
Best Buy Lines or the best buy you could ever make… #GivingTuesday
My family has often splurged on Black Friday. I remember vividly one Black Friday back in 2000 when my brothers, boyfriend and mom all got up super early and stood in line in the cold at Best Buy. Brandon and I were both building new computers and there was a large hard drive (probably only…
cans of beans
Tomorrow, we are hosting both my husband’s mom’s side of the family and my family for a big Thanksgiving meal. There is a 22 pound bird in the fridge and all of the fixings are ready to go. But as much as I cook during the week and as much as I watch those fancy…
Walking the fence
I grew up surrounded by Republicans. As we baled hay in the fields and made pies in the kitchen it was Rush Limbaugh blaring on the radio between farm reports. I was surrounded with suspicion about Clinton and rumors and scandal. I also had this idea of my mom as the rebel Democrat… secretly keeping…
Following Jesus isn't easy…
This morning in my devotion time I read from Matthew 21… the cleansing of the temple. I have been using the daily reading book from The Message and there are always good questions that pull you into the stories and make me think. This morning, I realized that following Jesus can give a person whiplash.…
Building Structures from the ground up
This weekend, I started to unpack boxes of books in my new home office. My large and spacious home office with built-in bookshelves + church office with a wall of shelves just doesn’t quite fit neatly into my new 9′ by 12′ space. Especially since I only have one small bookshelf left over from college.…