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Come Away and Rest Awhile
Who is Jesus to you? I wanted to say, “He’s my Lord, my Life, my Love,” but instead I lamely answered: “He’s my boss.” I am in ministry, so technically...
Great Steward or Great Consumer?
“Do you know that that’s a sin?” she asked. “What are you talking about?” I said. “If you have so much stuff that you can’t take care of it properly...
Are You Afraid of God?
When you think of God, are you “terrified and trembling” like Israel in today’s First Reading? Maybe you have kept God at arm’s length because you have been told you...
Living in Endurance
Baking and praying. This is how I cope. I realize this as I sift and mix, wiping flour from my fingertips. Recently bad news seems to accompany every phone call...
Prayer in a Whole New Way
There we were, in my parents’ backyard which was also the backyard of our church. The band was on the wooden stage built for summer worship gatherings just like this...
Best Exorcism in Scripture
This image in Mark’s Gospel of Jesus seizing “Legion” and casting him into the swine is a scene straight out of a horror film. You can practically hear the swine...
Let God Destroy Your Fear
When I was a little girl, I was afraid of a lot—being alone, strangers, the dark, and, if family pictures are to be believed, Santa Claus and snowmen. Above all,...
Greater than Our Storms
It is unbelievable but also deeply comforting to hear Jesus calm the storm with only a few words. It is also terrible and difficult to hear Jesus calm the storm...
Walk With Him
We cannot run from suffering if we commit to walk with Christ. It's a lesson in love that I come back to daily and it's one I fall more in...
Trusting Beyond Trauma
The power was out. We forgot to pay the electricity bill. An innocent mistake that could easily be used as an offering in solidarity with all those living without electricity...
Shaped After God or Me?
In college I studied literary theory and learned how to read texts through various lenses. Each lens had the power to change the story’s themes and the relationships between characters....
He Wants to Help
I sighed heavily as I sank into the pew, burdened by a long list of to-dos and even more consumed by fear and failure. I looked longingly at the tabernacle,...
