Since the weather turned cold and the possibility that snow or ice will line the edges of our streets grows more likely each day, my husband and I decided to buy a four-month membership at the YMCA in our town. Now, instead of slipping and sliding up and down the roads near our home in […] Read more
On my commute into the city yesterday morning, I listened to the Psalms of Ascent being read in the New American Standard Version. Admittedly, it’s not the most pleasant version to the ears, but it’s the default version in my Biblegateway App. While I don’t drive to the office everyday, I do follow the same […] Read more
During the week before Thanksgiving, I found myself in Texas, in a paint-splattered canyon dripping with rain and shivering down to its soaked cedar branches. I had come with friends, traveling in a van loaded with some of my favorite people, meeting up with dozens more sojourners whose paths were converging. We lingered around the […] Read more
Our family ended Thanksgiving with a fend-for-yourself dinner–the boys, Steve, and I each heating up restaurant leftovers or creating concoctions from the taco fixings remaining from the night before. We had enjoyed a traditional holiday dinner that day for lunch at my mom’s, so there were no bits of turkey or dressing, no spoonfuls of […] Read more
