Mar 3, 2023
Honestly, we show up for what we are committed to. Last Sunday, I was driving home around 1:30 pm. I drive by 2 churches on my way home, and frankly, there’s been more than one occasion I have had “church envy.” Parking lot w/ lots of cars (which hold people), a nice...
Mar 1, 2023
Is procrastinating really a “temptation?” We typically think of “bad” things when we think of temptations. (Like the ones listed in yesterday’s meditation). But what if temptations actually plague us more than we know? When Barna Group...
Feb 27, 2023
The more serious the temptation, the less we admit to it. Ten years ago, Barna released a survey exploring the new realm of temptations. Sure, that loaf of bread we want or the dessert we gave up for Lent still calls our name, but temptations are different in our new...
Feb 26, 2023
Remember that quote from A Tale of Two Cities? (Actually, I didn’t. I had no clue where it came from; I’ve just always heard ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’) And I’ve always known that to be true. Have you ever experienced that? Something being...
Feb 25, 2023
Do you ever have a tendency to lose things? You know you “once had it” but you haven’t seen it in quite some time, so it’s easier to consider it lost than to go digging around for it. Especially if the places we need to go digging are...
Feb 24, 2023
Tom and I recently adopted a dog named Mitzi from the Humane Society. We’ve known we wanted a German Shepherd dog friend for Axel for a while, but a puppy was not on our radar. Until a friend who volunteers at the shelter sent me a picture of the cutest litter of...
