Dear friends: Next week, April 1-8, is what is called Holy Week. It’s the time between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. I realized that I’m not ready. Not in the “we have so many big events happening at church and a cantata and a pageant and donkeys and camels and Roman soldier costumes to find” […]

It’s sunset. The window is open. The clouds are picking on the blue side of purple. The redbud tree in the yard between our neighbor’s house and ours is picking up the pink side of purple. It’s closer to her house. It’s on the side of the fence that marks the line between our yards. […]

I spent a week trying to figure out whether I was struggling with an allergy problem or a cold. The symptoms were a bit confusing. And what I wanted to have was an allergy problem. I didn’t want to be contageous. I didn’t want to be sick, not the kind of sick that makes you […]

I have some small bacterial thing for which I am receiving prayer and an antibiotic from people who care about me and care for me and know what they are doing. The people around me that I feel responsible to are telling me to take care of myself, to trust them to care care of […]

(A repost from June 25, 2009) Sometimes when a text is complicated, I have to rewrite it, just for me. That happened when I was looking at Colossians 1:15-20. So I rewrote it. I’m letting you see it, too. ———- God has a face. Jesus. —– The way the oldest gets everything? That’s Jesus to creation. […]