Micah 4:1-5 (ESV) 1 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, 2 and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain […]
First Sunday of Advent: December 3, 2023
Mark 13:32-37 “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33 Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. 34 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, […]
Archived Prayer Requests
The world will keep changing, technology will continue to advance, social media platforms will never fail to morph and multiply. One thing stays constant–I do poorly at keeping up with all of it. I am updating my website after a long time of… not updating it. In a former era I used to post prayer points on here, so this post is for the archive. […]
Grieving.
I read headlines in America about people who are black killed by people who are white, and subsequent violence done by people of all skin colors, and I feel nauseous. I know that I cannot fully understand what people experience when they encounter violence due to their appearance. I know I do not have all the facts or understand every perspective. (Dare I say… neither […]
Typos
A friend has been writing beautiful short stories on social media lately. I asked how long it takes her to write one, and she said five minutes, because she doesn’t edit too much. But to me, they’re perfect! I’m a recovering perfectionist, and I tend to write-rewrite-edit and then edit again and again before I post something. I see mistakes (too) easily. (Like that time […]
The Bad-News-Good-News of Thai Tree Trimming
I am not a fan of Thai tree trimming. In a tropical climate like Thailand with rain six months of the year, you can imagine how much and how fast green things grow. I love the green, and I love big trees. But at some point, those big trees lose leaves (which must be swept), and sometimes those big trees must be trimmed (preferably before […]
After Our Tribulation
April 8, 2020 C.S. Lewis wrote, “My own experience is something like this. I am progressing along the path of life in my ordinary contentedly fallen and godless condition, absorbed in a merry meeting with my friends for the morrow or a bit of work that tickles my vanity today, a holiday or a new book, when suddenly a stab of abdominal pain that threatens […]
What We Know
Everyone has an opinion about COVID-19. Every business, it seems, has an official statement about it. This post is neither. I have been glued to social media this week, seeing updates on who is doing what with their kids on quarantine and working from home, updates on who is sick and how to pray, updates on closures and cancellations. I feel like my brain is […]
Productivity with God in mind
Lately I’ve been reading about and listening to podcasts on productivity, task management, and getting more and bigger things done. I’ve picked up some good ideas, and was inspired to think through my own processes of workflow, task management, and my scattered to-do lists and calendars. I picked up, straightened up, and put up a lot of stuff that was laying around my house and […]
Getting Things Done
Ever had one of those days where you seem to get everything done, and then some? You do things that have been on your to-do list for months, you buy (and put away!) things that you’ve been meaning to purchase for weeks, you make that recipe you’ve been meaning to try and it tastes great too. I had a day like that recently, and as […]