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Tears don’t seem to stop streaming down my face. I am anxious.I’m angry.I’m sad.I’m tired.In the past I tried to ignore or control those feelings. I have since learned that they are a gift.
Jesus got tired.Jesus wept.Jesus got angry.They are gifts from...
A whole Holy Week. Sunday to Sunday.
This is a week set aside each year to follow Christ through the final week of His human life - to recall the events leading to His crucifixion and eventual Resurrection.
As I have been reflecting on this part of Jesus' life in this...
Many scholars say that the gospels were "written backwards", meaning that all four gospels match the most closely at the very end of Jesus' life story. The farther we travel back in Jesus' ministry, and then into his childhood and birth, the less closely each of the gospel...
It is generally understood that there are 7 stages of grief that people experience in some order when they are processing trauma:
Shock
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Testing
Acceptance
As a society, we're grieving. We're in the middle of prolonged, collective (and individual)...
This time last week, the world looked quite different than it does today. We were considering sacrificing something for Lent by choice. We were showing up to work everyday, participating in our usual activities. Our kids were in school. Our friends were meeting us for dinner.
This...
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do...
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus...
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. (2 Corinthians 12:9)
Ash Wednesday. The first day of Lent. Day...
Our last day in El Mirador was such a beautiful celebration of what the entire week was. We visited the kids school in the morning so we could spend some extra time with them. This was such a fun time and the kids tired us out yet again!In the afternoon we mostly just cleaned up, packed, and got...
Update on the boy with the wound on his knee! Stacy was happy to announce that his knee looked significantly better today, and that with continuous care it will definitely be okay. This is so great to hear, since Stacy shared with us this evening that after last night she was honestly really...