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2011 was the year when I didn’t get enough sleep. I blame Abram, mostly. Not that I regret one second of the blurry nights awake, holding and feeding him. But if you asked me what one moment of the year was the straight up distilled essence of 2011, it was a moment when Abram was [...]
I’m too much of a news junkie, mostly on my smart-phone. In my current life as a stay at home mom with a 10 month old baby and a kindergardener who needs dropping and off and picking up, I don’t get out much or see many other people. So I find myself paying way too [...]
I’m crying right now after listening to this NPR report on the Juarez, Mexico youth groups that go out dressed up as angels to protest the murders in their town. If angels are those who bear the good news to people on earth, THIS might be the most heart-stopping announcement of that news I’ve heard [...]
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” –Vaclav Havel On the news this morning: Vaclav Havel, great figure in the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia has died. I am by no means an expert in Eastern European politics, [...]
On this most incredible number day (11/11/11), a few numbers I’m contemplating this week. (None are particularly “biggie” numbers, like fives or tens or anything, but still cause to think around here.) Thirty Four I turn 34 this week. I think this means that I exit any claim to my early thirties and land in [...]
Michigan has been working on enacting an anti-bullying law. Nice job, mitten folks. But here’s the upsetting part: in the course of debate, Republicans added a clause that allows for sincerely held opinions based on religion and conscience to be expressed. Here’s a concise explanation of this. (And, yes, I know that my source is [...]
Don’t you love when two completely unrelated topics converge in your head? Here’s mine for the day: Billy Graham and Wilco. I kinda love them both. Billy Graham, admittedly not perfect, but who is? I think in many ways he is a model Christian. Devoted to Christ. Grew in his faith and in his actions [...]
It would be an understatement to call the last week of parenting around here “rocky”. But, I’ll take what I can get… Erik took the kids out today. I stayed home and hacked away at the home organization project. And enjoyed a few hours of no one needing anything. I met them for dinner. We [...]
As I write this, I know I have some ministry colleagues who are rubbing their eyes from computer-strain, and earnestly begging the Holy Spirit to GET ON WITH IT already and give them a little boost for the sermon tomorrow. I think, for church-y people, the tenth anniversary of 9/11/2001 falling on a Sunday is [...]