Dec 15, 2021
Advent Meditations “Forgiveness” What would it be like to go to a ballgame and be the “official score keeper” but you only watch one team? Imagine, let’s say a football game . . . the opposing/visiting team scores a touchdown but no score goes on the...
Dec 14, 2021
Advent Meditations “Forgiveness” Years ago, I served on a very large staff, and one thing we’d do to build community would be to go out to eat together every week after a staff meeting. Off we’d go, sporting our church staff apparel. The lunches became...
Dec 13, 2021
Advent Meditations “Forgiveness” Have you ever had chores that were a “MUST” to do? Ones that you dreaded doing but they were expected so you had no choice but to do them? Recently I decided I would be ambitious and I would vacuum the blinds. I’d tried...
Dec 8, 2021
Advent Meditations “Relentless Love” As much as we like to think of West as an amazing “church,” it is also a business. We manage supply/demand, risk-benefit ratio, cash flow, etc. We have trends just as any regular business does. Typically we do a decent...
Dec 7, 2021
The Disney character Peter Pan has a very unique shadow. At one point in the movie, Peter and his shadow chase each other around until Peter wrestles his shadow down so it can be sewn back onto his shoes. Sometimes our past chases us like Peter’s shadow chased him. We...
Dec 3, 2021
When Tom and I adopted Axel, I was determined that he was going to “attach” to both of us equally. Or . . . maybe me a little bit more! 🙂 Nevertheless, we both wanted to be really intentional about his bonding with each of us, our respective homes, etc. We...
