I’m guessing if you’re reading this, like me, you feel poisoned by the onslaught of post-election laments, rants, hate-slinging and terror posted on social media and broadcast on television news. Like me, you’re also probably somewhat addicted to reading, which in itself is a good habit, but in this technology age, social media is like …
I read a Facebook post comment yesterday where a woman wrote about being dissatisfied with some of the churches she’s frequented. She called one a Stepford church because everyone looked alike — women wore the same kind of 2.5 inch heeled pumps and similar floral print dresses, calf-length, with a platter collar. It made me …
A while back when I faced an onslaught of anxiety from the far horizon of my unconscious, during the desert of mid-life, when my hands-on, self-less years of motherhood withered to cooking one family dinner a week, if even, when my son’s adolescence took root, when menopause and teen hormones danced hip-hop through my living room, …
The Spiritual Practice of Surrendering to God’s Will Read More »
I’ve been spending quality time with women friends lately, noticing a common theme arising from our conversations – surrender. We’re raising the white flags, relinquishing crippling overwhelm, looming vocational transitions, financial concerns, challenges with our children, and for some marriage and partnership turmoil. We’re finding controlling our relationships won’t work, goals aren’t panning out, charting …
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” -Hugh Prathner Change is alive in the seasons, weathered on our skin with age. It’s in the thrust of death, and of birth. It’s the memory as we clean our grown son’s whiskers off the sink, of the pure scent of his …