When I was preparing to move, people kept telling me I’m really brave.  I don’t think of myself as brave.  I don’t feel brave.  When I...

I was talking to a friend and apologized for the grief that my decision to go overseas is causing everyone. She said, “grief is a strong...

A few weeks ago I got Ingrid Michaelson’s new album, Lights Out.  The refrain of the song “Wonderful Unknown” strikes me every time I...

Today’s prayer is inspired by the concept of the transition bridge and Psalm 46. You are my “refuge and strength, an ever-present help in...

Today, 50 days after Easter, the church celebrates Pentecost.  We remember God sending the Holy Spirit to the disciples, the beginnings...

Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like...

Faithful God, I’m waiting, wondering, hoping, working. When life seems foggy, and I can’t se through the haze, Help me to wait hopefully,...

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders,...

I don’t think I have ever been this ready to celebrate Easter.  So much of the last 18 months of my life has been questions, longing,...

Writers pay attention; they notice things.  This was one of my takeaways from Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Writing.  I want to...

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the day the Western church begins the church season of Lent.  We remembered that all of us came from dust...