“The harvest is ended, the summer is past and we are not saved” rattles through my mind like a chant this holiday season. I have bowed under the yoke of…
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The seething anger between Americans frightens me. Pundits are saying we are as polarized as Americans before the Civil War. What would happen if we did something more radical than...
Read More It seemed like all my friends were getting married and I was always a bridesmaid. I was on my way to graduate school. A family friend, Dorothy Harro gave me…
“You suck. You suck. You suck,” hammered my thoughts as I stood in front of a class that did not want to talk. We were talking about Gretchen Rubin’s The…
I am my younger self’s worst nightmare. I am proof that not all dreams come true — even dreams you want so badly you can taste them. I am proof…
Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. Preachers quoted this scripture at the end of sermons, hoping to entice us to walk up the aisle…
Sometimes a week goes so far awry — your routine is disrupted, your work doesn’t get worked — that you feel helpless as a hog on ice, struggling to get…
Last year I bought a couple of expensive planners, hoping they would nudge me out of days wasted on Facebook. I started with a daily shaped around the Christian year….
Ever since we moved to the farm, I’ve wanted to set out our housewarming gift, a cedar bird feeder. I wanted to see blue jays, gold finches, rose-colored grosbeaks, and…
One thing loving our neighbor means is watching out for the other guy. It doesn’t have to be as dramatic as the Good Samaritan stopping to tend an injured man’s…