Perhaps it’s not our job to make God happy. We’ve tried every which way. Obeying our parents (except when we didn’t). Being a good spouse...

Prayer is weird. It's one of those things that every person has an opinion about. And for some people, they are strong ones. What it is....

That feeling has been rising up within me. The pressure to do better, be better... STRIVE. FIX. MAKE.IT.HAPPEN. It happens to me every...

They say that confession is good for the soul. I'm not sure who "they" is, but when I speak a thing out loud, even if it's scary and...

When I was a young girl, I had the New Year’s resolution every year of reading through the Bible. On January 1, I would read 40 chapters...

I will light my very last candle this morning. The largest one of all. The Christ Candle. The time has come. I’m very glad to do it. Just...

Breathe. Just breathe. Long. Slow. Deep. Breathe. Words said to me over and over again with every single contraction I had as I labored...

Breathe. Just breathe. Long. Slow. Deep. Breathe. Words said to me over and over again with every single contraction I had as I labored...

The past several months have been marked by much suffering. The pain can be overwhelming. Substance abuse by those we love. Every kind of...

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE. The mantra sung and chanted and begged for in 1969. 1969. War rages and protests break out all over. Charles Manson...

I lit a candle this morning. For the first time. Not just any candle. The candle of Hope on this first day, this first Sunday of Advent....

Halloween is strange. Skeletons decorate lawns. Fear is prime real estate in the "fun to do." The "shadows" come out to play. Death is...

I picked up some barbecue from a local restaurant this past week. It’s a hole-in-the-wall that opens at 11 am and usually sells out by 2...

I have a frenemy. Her name is Anger. SHE POPS IN OFTEN I’m just going about my very average day and WHAM, there she is. It doesn’t take...

My nighttime prayers were once filled with berating myself for the day past. Making sure I got all my ducks in a row before the Almighty....

What we all fear? JUDGMENT. What we all do at times? JUDGE. I walked into the grocery store for the first time today since our mask...

There once was a woman who DID NOT like ordinary days. She wanted hoopla and fanfare. Bluster and rah-rah. Ordinary meant colorless and...

I'm late for Lent. But somehow I don't feel like I am. It feels like it's been Lent for a year. All the sacrifices. All the not having....

We forgot about those letters we penned to each other on a marriage retreat. A whole year ago. But here they were, two envelopes in our...

I just finished officiating a wedding over Zoom. It was a second-chance wedding. One that spoke to redemption and hope. One that said,...