In a morning devotion I have been studying, this week’s focus has been working as unto the Lord on all the things. Today, one of the prompts was to write down the tasks that are assigned to me in this season. My list looked like this: Laundry Cleaning Meal planning and preparing Tending gardens/flowers Helping…
Have you ever read Psalms in The Message by Eugene Peterson? In his introductory comments to this beautiful and well-loved book of the Bible, he talks about how the whole concept of The Message started with his efforts to put the Psalms into our every day language to help his parishioners learn how to pray. …
I have been praying what to share with you today, because the thing that keeps coming to mind seems too raw and too personal and too invasive of people’s private grief. But I can’t get around it and so I am going to share my heart today. Yesterday we attended the funeral of a man…