I don't remember when I first wrote those words (Older women still need older women) in my journal. Although as I've continued my journey and can…
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I was sitting in the doctor’s office for my annual eye exam last summer. An older couple with a Mastiff “puppy” their service dog in training, shared the waiting room…
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I read backwards not because of dyslexia. I read backwards in my journals to discern the voice of God. Reading backwards to find the path of life. Reading backwards to know…
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Can it be that God reminds us of His abundant power with just one word -- one seemingly inconsequential word in the story of Moses, a common everyday…
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Yes, I'm praying, God, please restore Bill's vision. (Bill, my husband, is not blind, but his Naion has left him with blind spots and partial vision in both eyes.) I'm human and this is my…
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I grew up in New Jersey, a 45-minute drive from New York City via the George Washington Bridge, a two-story engineering marvel across the Hudson River. Did I tell you that my Grandpa was the…
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I pinched myself. Sue, pay attention; stay in the moment; live with expectancy. This is real. This is amazing. These God-created creatures are swimming…
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God's creativity, His grace offered by His creation, overflowed with gifts from the ocean. Before the tides rolled in in the early mornings, some…
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Flying high over this gentler swath of Alaska wilderness in our Beaver float plane, the beauty kept us wide-eyed and snapping pictures. A highlight…
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Flying high over this gentler swath of Alaska wilderness in our Beaver float plane, the beauty kept us wide-eyed and snapping pictures. A highlight…
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Living Nativity scenes, so popular during Advent, communicate worship to me. Often the face of the young girl acting as Mary oozes expectancy. She seems to know…
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I understand release and embrace, but expectations and expectancy? How are they different? What was God saying? I went with it – whatever…
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In the past five years, attending funerals has occupied more of our calendar space than attending weddings, a new chapter in our journey. My wonderings,my curiosity, my trust about heaven stirred, a good thing…
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Niche - A comfortable place, or status, or position appropriate for a person. From google and the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Why was a niche so important to me? What did the niche provide for me?
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My husband sometimes watches college wrestling on TV. He enjoys it. He understands it. He wrestled in high school and college. I rarely watch with him. I don’t understand it and I don’t enjoy it. That’s sometimes how I feel about life. It’s like a wrestling match or a fight. There are so many “hards” swirling around me. I don’t enjoy it…
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I am so thankful for Romans 8:1 There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. You know, there are some stories that sometimes are just so embarrassing you don't even want to share them. If you do, you learn you not only minister…
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Rachel celebrated her 30th milestone last July. She connected with several of us (older, ah-hem) friends asking for a gift - our gift of words written on a card and delivered by snail mail. How old-fashioned. I loved it…
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On this ordinary Tuesday, as I glanced through Facebook, this phrase stopped me, saturated with the sacred. My thoughts went back to last September as my sisters and I gathered around Mom's bed. Her eyes were closed, her breathing shallow, our hands holding hers. We prayed, we sang, we told stories…
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Yes, the social media campaign ignited the Me Too message. No, I was never sexually abused. Yes, I'm raising my hands, me too, but with a different message. I have experienced the ministry of vulnerability. As Brene Brown says, "vulnerability is at the core of meaningful human experiences"…
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The theme of shame begins in the story of creation. Genesis 2:25 translated in the New Living Translation (NLT), "Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame." Adam and Eve, totally exposed and naked, felt no shame. Before the fall, they were completely at peace with who God created them to be…
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