January 16, 2025 Being Unseen Jeff and I like to joke about an old Monte Python skit. Sometimes it’s tempting to practice the “Art of Not Being Seen.” Entering…
January 10, 2025 Like the Noonday Sun “Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; Trust in Him…
December 27, 2024 Más Cristo For the first December in a long while our musical family isn’t preparing for Christmas worship. Every year, after November thankfulness, I love the…
December 13, 2024 How Long? “My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the…
December 6, 2024 Stuff to Still “Be STILL and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth” (Psalm 46:10)….
November 29, 2024 I’ll Keep It! Last night I sat surrounded by the “fruit of my labor,” four adults aged 18-23, filling our plates with diverse expressions of creativity. This…
November 26, 2024 Accessible Peace “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God” (Philippians 4:6, NIV). But…
November 22, 2024 The Good Fight “Fight the good fight of faith…”(1 Timothy 6:12, NIV). I never would have guessed that in my middle years, I would learn to fight…
November 8, 2024 Press On! “Slow and steady wins the race” (Aesop). Timid one, you fell again. Dust off your pride. Stand back up! Onward we go, though the…
November 1, 2024 Better Plans “The best-laid schemes of Mice and Men Go oft awry” (Robert Burns, interpreted by Michael Burch). Dear Self, I know you love your planner….