Hi Dear Friends!
Every year I find myself at the same frenzied Christmas season pace. Between the parties, buying the presents, & scraping the snow off my windshield I feel like I miss the beautiful holiday season in all the stress that comes along with it. I have a really vivid memory a few years ago [...]
“Then you turned my despair into a dance – you stripped me of my death shroud and clothed me with joy.” – Psalm 30:11
Your body remembers things that your mind forgets.
This week I started dancing again. I haven’t taken a ballet class in years, and haven’t tried to do any kind of dancing consistently [...]
After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the Gift by the Sea.
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I have been contemplating the last several weeks what makes me fully alive. One of the desert fathers said, “that the glory of God is the human being fully alive.” So what is it that makes me fully alive: Beauty, pushing myself beyond my capabilities, being apart of the transformation for the kingdom, Justice lived out, and Jesus sacrificial and amazing love for me, for us, for the world.
The details of our life and ministry are complicated these days. Our barn is not clean. The last few days have involved continuations of said dramas and today we sit, homeless, illegal, much of our earthly possessions in boxes with no where to go. Cold. Stinking. Messy.
Our board of directors prayed this prayer together as we met over the weekend. Board member, Kyle Schroeder, sent the prayer to us via e-mail since he was unable to make this weekend’s meeting. We missed his presence greatly. A bit of trivia: This was the first board meeting Kyle has missed since he joined [...]