Mar 18, 2021
Assumptions get us into trouble Every. Single. Time. Anytime I “plan ahead” I feel as if I’ve achieved something just short of miraculous. Especially when it comes to persona/household things. With work – I’m all about “planning” and I live by my calendar....
Mar 17, 2021
If we are revamping things, we are changing them. And over the past several weeks we’ve been intentional about “revamping” ourselves. Changing ourselves for the better, so that we grow and become more like Christ. When we hear the word change, we usually think of it...
Mar 16, 2021
As you’ve heard (or read), Tom/I are co-adopting a dog. We joke that Axel is quite a lucky dog to have both a city home (with me) and a lake home (with Tom). In a message a few weeks ago, I shared the travails of trying to get Axel in my car. (As I understand it, that...
Mar 15, 2021
When Josh and I were prepping for yesterday’s message, we needed to clean the mirror. The beautiful floor-length mirror (thank you, Gary and Suzanne Heck, for the use of said mirror!) that we’ve been writing on for the past 3 weeks. It had lots of “stuff” on it! The...
Mar 8, 2021
It’s easy to miss the mark when we can’t see where we are headed. Last week I had the rare privilege to interview a German woman whose first childhood memory was of her home being bombed, the entire apartment building being destroyed, and her mother screaming for her...
Mar 4, 2021
It sounded like fun! Taking an ax, throwing it at a wooden target, and seeing how it would “stick.” The target was a large wooden wall, so surely it couldn’t be that difficult. I knew my athletic limitations going into the outing. (Pretty much, I...
