Mar 30, 2018 | Blog, Devotions, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
Visiting the Blog Archives today. We are not built for everyone’s bad news, or are we? Day after day, bad news streams into our lives. Just this week: A 22,000 lb. bomb, known as “The Mother of all Bombs (MOAB),” was dropped in the Achin district of...
Mar 29, 2018 | Blog, Bible Study, Devotions, Faith, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
James Tissot, A Holy Woman Wipes Jesus’s Face Fact or fable? Does it matter to me today? I confess not. Tissot reminds me this Holy Maundy Thursday to help others in their time of desperate need. We belong to one another. One grand universal family who one day...
Mar 28, 2018 | Blog, Faith, Motherhood, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
While the Bible does not tell us who the wife of Pilate the governor was, the Apocryphal book, The Gospel of Nicodemus, identifies her as Claudia Procula, and a granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus. The book also says that she was a proselyte to Judaism, being among...
Mar 26, 2018 | Prayer, Blog, Spiritual Formation, Strength for Hard Times
Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around.” -Proverbs 13:12 (MSG) Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” -Proverbs 13:12 (NIV) The Pain of Unanswered...
Apr 14, 2017 | Devotions, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
We are not built for everyone’s bad news, or are we? Day after day, bad news streams into our lives. Just this week: A 22,000 lb. bomb, known as “The Mother of all Bombs (MOAB),” was dropped in the Achin district of Nangarhar province in eastern...
Mar 5, 2016 | Other, Conversation, emotional health and wellbeing, Practicing Love, Spiritual Formation
“But therein lies the paradox: Speaking out and being ‘real’ are not necessarily virtues. Sometimes voicing our thoughts and feelings shuts down the lines of communication, diminishes or shames another person, or makes it less likely that two people can...
