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He Must Increase; I Must Decrease
"He must increase; I must decrease" (John 3:30). What if my life is meant to be smaller, quieter, and slower? What if God wants me to want less? We live...
A Vision of How My Sins Stab His Heart
It was an average, dirty snow, Minnesotan late afternoon where the sun that had hid its head all day and evening crept in early. I sat in the long, long...
More Than a Class-Ditching Cheerleader
It was my senior year of high school when the Denver Broncos won the Super Bowl. Not much of a football fan before that win, I became one on the...
Experience His Perfect Love
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear" (I John 4:17). This Scripture and I go around and around. I wonder if this love is even...
What Will You Do with That Food?
We want to see justice in our world, but do we act and speak with justice in our corner? When we encounter the outcast, the lonely, the broken, do we...
Testing Spirits in High School Religion Class
Have you ever had an experience where you needed to test the spirits, and discern: Is this of God or not? Is this truth or a lie dressed up and...
Power in the Smallness
So much of my prayer life craves the grandiose—the big, booming voice from the heavens or the wild winds that hum in resolution. You know, the stuff you read about...
When It Comes to Love, Practice Makes Perfect
The bathroom counter is a minefield of Sparkle Crest toothpaste for the third time this week. Globs drip from the faucet and streak the front of the cabinet. A neon...
Sinless Life?
I wear a gold cross around my neck every day. I am aware of its presence just as others are aware. I fiddle with my cross. I catch their glance...
The Stories We Tell
I love telling stories about my dad. Like the time my family went tubing in the rapids, and he called my sister “the lamest” when she flipped him over, and...
Who We Are and Who We Aren't
"Who are you?" . . . "I am not the Christ" (John 1:20). When I first read these words uttered by Saint John the Baptist, it's the feast of Christ...
Eyes on Theotokos
I kind of hate New Year's. First of all, I fall into a deep post-Christmas slump most years during this in-between week. The shine of the hyper-commercialized frenzy that is...
