Here is the Friday Five writing prompt from over at RevGals. 1. When did you start blogging? What/who prompted you? I first blogged back in 2006 when I went to the Middle East for a month. My mom was convinced I was going to die far away from home. And so pictures and updates that…
In worship on Epiphany, the day the church remembers the star that led the magi to Jesus, we passed out pieces of paper that had been cut into nice star shapes. On each star was printed a word. I invited the congregation members to take a star and consider how God might be speaking to…
From over at RevGals this morning: “I have been thinking about friends lately. I am so grateful for the faithful friends who have brought me along in life, and I know them in such different ways! Some are friends from my whole life…childhood, college, graduate school, churches, work, etc. Some are friends of those friends.…
Here is the reflection I shared this morning in Keynote at Montreat Youth Conference. From Luke 15:11-32 I am a prodigal daughter. I grew up in a great family, with a good church community. I had everything. And then one day I woke up and wondered how I ended up starving and wishing I could…
This past week, I had the distinct privilege of being a part of a Holy moment. There is a young couple in our church who wanted to get married. I had baptized both of them, when they came to faith and joined the church. Andy proposed to Chris on the labyrinth, in front of the…
Here is the prompt from over at Revgalblogpals for the Friday Five. “In my neck of the woods folks who have children of a certain age are doing a dead sprint through end of school year activities: piano recitals, baseball tournaments, travel soccer games, gymnastics meets, dance recitals, graduations, band concerts, field trips and end-of-the…
Over at RevGalBlogPals, the prompt for Friday Five is about Birthdays. Let’s play. 1) What is the first birthday you remember? I have a lot of “snapshot” kind of memories of early birthdays. Maybe my 4th or 5th would be the earliest I can really picture. 2) Do you recall a favorite gift?
This is one of my contributions to the Abingdon Creative Preaching Annual 2014. Exodus 1:8 to 2:10 I wonder if Pharaoh ever had second thoughts about killing the Hebrew peoples’ boy babies instead of their girl babies. Because if you read this story, the men aren’t much of a problem. They are slaves. They are…
Acts 17:22-31 And Paul suggests that one of the reasons we were created by this now known God was so we “would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us”. I love this. What a gift. How would we live life differently…
This is one of my contributions to the Abingdon Creative Preaching Annual 2014. Genesis 22:1-14 I am furious. I have sojourned with him all across the Middle East. I forgave him when he tried to pass me off as his sister. Twice. We’ve had some good times too, for sure. He stood by me in…
Glass Overflowing 