identification – 300 words a day

The personal touch

Martha calmly conversed. Mary dissolved in tears. Two sisters, same dead brother. They both talked with Jesus, each with different experiences. After Lazarus died and Martha heard that Jesus was in town, she went and talked with him. “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” They had a conversation, Jesus […]

sometimes something clicks

I was sitting on a dock in a small lake in western Michigan. It was early summer morning. I was working as a counselor at a camp for the summer. I was between my first two years of college. I took time off my computer job to be with kids. I’m not sure why, exactly. […]

Jesus knows what it is like

“Every day, say to yourself, ‘Jesus knows what it’s like to be a mom.’” That is the second of five doable actions that came out of a sermon on Titus 2:11-14. One of the things that often stops us in prayer and belief is that we think that God can’t understand us. And I understand […]