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“Hen Party” I try to make it a habit to walk around our yard most days after work. I circle the house, then head down to the garden where yellow and red Zinnias occupy one row and red-and-white striped ones form another. The heads of the...
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Each of my boys has discovered origami sometime between their sixth and seventh year of life. It always begins with fortune tellers and airplanes, then progresses to boats and paper hats. Soon, every surface of the house is littered with folded scraps of...
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I’ve been immersed in Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle’s books recently (Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir). I’m so encouraged and enchanted by his sense of God’s innate qualities – qualities affirmed in scripture, but often...
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Our need for warmth draws us and keeps us together, sprawled where the seating is too limited for six, the noise levels too much. The dog, also, is there, taking up more than her fair share of the love seat. In the corner, the wood stove ticks as the cast iron...
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What is the kingdom of God like? And to what should I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches. Luke 13:18-19 A...
