The Sunday that I traveled up to Cherokee, my nine-year-old cousin Taylor was baptized. One afternoon, she came home very upset from school. You see, one of her best friends at school had asked her that day if she had been baptized. Taylor wasn’t sure, and her little friend responded: If you aren’t baptized, you…
Dead or Alive… #reverb10
In March of this year, my mom’s whole family traveled to Hawaii together. It’s not the first time we have made the trip and it certainly won’t be the last. It is sort of an extended family reunion that happens every few years – all beginning when I was only five years old! Our time…
Don’t Try… DO! #reverb10
For me, the word try has some negative connotations. As in – if you are trying to do something, you aren’t really, actually, doing it. Kaileen Elise challegned us today: December 18 – Try What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? What happened when you…
Jumping Through Hoops #reverb10
I came late to this Reverb10 party, so I have been trying to do some catch-up on the prompts. And I found myself absolutely stuck. frozen. unable to think or move or do. I was floored by my inability to respond to some of these prompts. December 17 – Lesson Learned What was the best…
Long-Distance Friendships #reverb10
Being a pastor in a small town makes it really hard to build and maintain friendships. Well, maybe that should be rephrased… makes it really hard to build and maintain the kind of friendships where you get to actually spend face to face time with one another. In college, I lived in a small intentional…
A Writer? #reverb10
I’m not sure that I really consider myself a writer. Or at least, I haven’t considered it before. When I make a list of hobbies and things I like to do, writing never makes an appearance. When I talk about the things that I am good at, I have never thought to include writing. But,…
one word: lonely #reverb10
The only way for your life to be different is if you take a good hard look at it and figure out what exactly needs to change. And my life needs a good hard look right now. In some ways, I am feeling a little snarky as I write this. I am kind of in…
Remembering in Five #reverb10
In a year full of ordinary days and moments and the little things that we do and quickly forget… here is to taking five minutes to capture what we shouldn’t forget. snow disc golf at Lincoln Park in Belle Plaine… we bundled up and had a ton of fun romping in the snow =) I…