Ash poured down like rain, on 9-11, and this last week around my very home. My children choke, complain. Raw throats ache, from the ashes left scattered on our car. A sky smoggy, dark, reminding us of the fires, out of control, here in the great Northwest. Yet, we are a nation who rises. Falling bodies, […]
Exhausted. Burned out. Spent. Going on a dozen years of fostering children, I could relate to Peter, fishing all night; sweaty, drained, depleted….and yet sadly catching nothing. In my own life, I was ready to pull up my net, stop discipling and training children, just to see them leave, a month or even two and a […]
That’s not my Jesus. In 1998, an Aryan Nation security guard, outside the compound founded by Richard Butler, their white supremecy leader, shot at a woman, drove her off the road, and assaulted both her and her son, justified by a tainted mix of nazi-ism and religion. That’s not my Jesus. During college, I self-studied the […]
In padded seats, I remember it well. A teacher standing over me, sharing with the classroom…. “Never just open the Bible and read. It’s dangerous.” He used Matthew 27:5 to justify his fear. “I mean, what if you open the Bible and read, ‘Then he went away and hanged himself’… And someone went out and actually […]
Caught up in the day, I sit down and play, “Bible Roulette”. Something I have done since Bible camp prior to my teens. I can’t say it’s the “right” method for Bible reading. Yet, for me. Somehow…. God always speaks, when I trust. Wait. Pray. And let the Spirit lead. This day I open and find. […]
At twenty-two, I struggled as a new parent. So selfish; my life looked like the Bermuda Triangle; tugging, pulling, and twisting me downward, in a million different directions. Something unseen seemed to hinder me from living in the freedom I should have had, as a new wife and mother. At first, life with a family felt […]