Beauty Found Among the Doubters

. . .Maybe doubting isn’t all that bad. When Jesus was talking to his disciples, his friends, he was trying to prepare them for his departure. They were bewildered and there was one among them that just couldn’t refrain from speaking up when something wasn’t...

Would You Be Willing to Take a Mapless Journey?

A Daily Lenten Devotion When Tom and I began dating, we quickly realized that although we had so much in common, our brains functioned in very different ways. His = logical, thoughtful, detailed, and one that finishes things. Mine = creative, oftentimes illogical and...

You Can Never Go Back to the Way It Used to Be

A Daily Lenten Devotion Can you think of a time that you were given freedom to do something you’d always really wanted to do and you LOVED it?? There was no going back to the way it used to be! When I first began my career in ministry 26 years ago I had no desire to...

“Why do you save what you save?”

Growing up I used to be mortified because two times a year my father would insist on going to Fort Bragg for grocery shopping. He was career military, serving in 3 wars, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, and felt strongly that he should utilize the career military perks that...
Simple Awareness  Leads to Acceptance

Simple Awareness Leads to Acceptance

A Daily Lenten Devotion Walter Joseph Ciszek was a Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who conducted clandestine missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963. Fifteen of these years were spent in confinement and hard...

Psychedelics and “In and Through”!

A Daily Lenten Devotion Anytime either of my children says, “it would mean a lot to me if you would . . .” So I am determined to investigate their request. Per my son’s suggestion, I applied for a Johns Hopkins research study. He’d studied some of their research...