Searching For The Sacred
On a walk in mid-September, my husband and I noticed our neighbors putting up Halloween decorations. The decorations weren’t just the standard pumpkins, hay barrels and scarecrows that I remember from when I was little, but instead yards consumed with skeletons, blow-up monsters, witch caldrons, and zombies. Just a few weeks later, I walked down […]
Worry or Give Thanks
I was described by my parents as a ‘worrier.’ I would like to think that over the years, the worrying has decreased. But unfortunately, the worry-monster rears its head more frequently than I would like. A few years ago, the worrying started to increase in intensity. I couldn’t pinpoint as to why but at times […]
5 Ways To Embrace Your Limits During The Holidays
Is this how God wants me to enter into celebrating His birth – as a disheveled, distracted mess? It was 2019 and I had two kids in diapers. We were driving home from my parents’ house downstate when a terrible realization caught me by surprise as I was scanning my inbox… The BIG Shutterfly sale […]
Feasting & Fasting
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. -1 Corinthians 10:31 Fasting Helps Me Feast Note 1: This reflection on fasting is not intended for those struggling with disordered eating or who are entrapped in cycles of guilt because of food. If this is you, please […]
The Secret & Holy Power of Thanksgiving
“Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.” Ps. 100:4-5