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My mother was a biscuit-making master—they looked and tasted good. The goodness and the prettiness came both from the ingredients and her process. Baking things well has a lot to do with the make-up and the work-out of the dough, knowing exactly the right amount of...
Could it be that when we pray in order to get stuff, the power of our prayers is not so much in the asking as it is in the acknowledging the power of the One we bow before? Maybe prayer is a tool to prepare us to receive, an acknowledgment of the Giver’s power to...
Hunger gets our attention. Its pangs remind us that we have needs. The grumblings and rumblings of hunger remind us of our reliance upon sustenance from outside ourselves. The emptiness prompts us to go in search of what we are missing. Hunger will not be satisfied...
Several years ago, my husband and I took our first child-free and schedule-free road trip together. On previous trips with our girls, we flew past signs proclaiming, “Scenic Overlook” but never stopped to enjoy them. This time, on our own, we veered off….(View...
Journaling is a particularly powerful way of remembering. Without a way of remembering, we forget. I wonder if practicing deep gratitude isn’t another way of keeping record of the memorable people and occurrences in our lives and our hearts. Perhaps...
For a while, I have needed to declutter my closet. Sometimes the stuff we hold onto—clothes, habits, attitudes, perceptions—can block the way for something better and new because our storage is filled up, and the better things won’t fit. “Come follow….(View this...
If Jesus looked at your faith, what would he see? What do others see? When these followers of Jesus bring their paralyzed friend to Jesus, they are certain he can heal their friend. They tear the roof off of the house where Jesus is teaching and lower...
Lord, sometimes you call us into the deep where untold treasures dwell. For reasons of your own, you have us venture beyond where we have gone before, leaving behind things we have relied upon and sailing away from the shoreline. Faith’s journey requires us to get in...
Some days, I can feel the covering of prayers once prayed for meReaching to me in the here-and-now from the knees upon which she once knelt,From love so deeply feltPrayed with the quiet murmurs of her heart or some agonizing plea Carried before the Almighty on behalf...
Why is it so hard for us to believe Jesus? Why are we always looking for a sign or further proof of Jesus being who he says he is? While the possessed people recognize Jesus, recognition alone does not cause the demons to follow Jesus. Once banished, the...
