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Toward the end of our time together, I mentioned to my spiritual director that I was considering what kind of practice I might embrace for Lent, but didn’t really know where to begin. She grew animated and explained that Lent is a time to join Jesus in the...
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I wrote this poem this past December and then let it sit for a good long while. Now it seems to me that it has something to do with Lent and Jesus’ invitation to follow him into the desert for these forty days. When I wrote it, I was thinking of...
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She told him, “When I was in college I read a folktale about a father pursuing a son who’d run far away, from one world to the next. The father called to him, ‘Please come back!’ But his son looked across the great gulf between them and shouted...
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My oldest son worries about getting lost. He’s the middle child, so I guess it makes sense, bookended as he is by his sister and twin brothers. One morning as we dropped his sister off at school and headed toward the other side of town to pick up his...
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(this picture was found here.) This Thread, These Crumbs I want to explain how it feels – it seems to me that my life is held together by an unseen thread, a shimmering strand of gossamer, perhaps. And as I pass through each moment in time and space I am...
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Earlier this week, Emily Weirenga posted a link-up around the question, “Would you be friends with your younger self?” While not a direct answer, you can read my thoughts below and visit this link to read how others responded. Enjoy! And,...
