Better Than A Hallelujah

This is me.  Baring my soul.  It's easier to do when I'm sitting at Starbucks and you're wherever you are, and I don't need ...

The Lifeboat Charlotte Rogan The premise of The Lifeboat reminds me of one of those moral dilemmas that often come out when people are a...

A while back, I read a series of books called The Chaos Walking .   It wasn't a series that I loved, but I did find some good "nu...

No doubt about it!  God is good-- good to good people, good to the good-hearted. But I nearly missed it, missed seeing his goodnesss. I was...

It was Mission India Sunday at church, and then my Sunday School class and I discussed missions.  Those teenagers are pretty smart, and they...

Ah, the lazy, hazy days of summer.  A little too hazy and humid this year for my taste, but still, they were lazy days.  And, if I'm hon...

The Chaos Walking Series: The Knife of Never Letting Go The Ask & The Answer Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness I've chosen to re...

In honor of today, August 26, 2012, the day of our dear friend's ordination, a song we sang during his service.  It was a privilege and ...

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) Mindy Kaling Our book club has been struggling this summer, both with our readin...

There's a wall that has been standing Since the day that Adam fell Sin is where it started And Sin is why it held Speaking as a prisoner...

I have three beautiful and amazing girls.  They like to giggle together.  They like to snuggle with each other.  They like to play Little Pe...

In celebration of the Miles for Hope 5K yesterday and its local 2012 ambassador, Mitchell Buning , and his victory over a brain tumor . . ....

Yesterday in church, our pastor shared an email from one of our members who is currently in Thailand, visiting her son and daughter-in-law a...

You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A true story of family, face blindness, and forgiveness Heather Sellers In Sellers's memoir, s...

Hope is a funny thing.  So is seeing a movie the night after a horrific shooting at its premiere. Obviously we are half a country away fro...

This morning, in the coolness of my bedroom (okay, it was probably about 80 degrees--but that's cool if you'd entered the room the n...

This is my Father's world, and to my listening ears all nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres. This is my Fathe...

This may be the longest break I've taken from blogging since 2012 and my new goals began.  Now that we're (more than--how did that h...

I'm not in church (proper) again this Sabbath.  I was raised in church and going to church and playing church and never taking a Sunday ...

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd I should start by acknowledging that I didn't love this book ....