I was handed ‘A Personal Guide to Your Spiritual Journey’ pamphlet the other day. As I prepared to open it, I wondered what kind of insights it would have into where I was, or where I should be in my faith. I struggle with feeling like a very odd duck in church culture. Our current…
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a 36-hour road trip and some churchy thoughts
Journey. Spiritual Journey. When churches talk about being on a spiritual journey, what are they really talking about? ******************** During our first summer of being married, my husband and I decided to take a road trip. We didn’t have the money or vacation time to take a real vacation, so the question was, what can…
A Sh–ty Grace
I have a new favorite visualization of what grace is. Actually, I don’t know that I ever actually had a favorite visualization before. In the past, whenever I thought about grace, it was usually to picture beautiful things co-existing with dirty things. A beautiful flower rising out of a compost heap. Two friends hugging and…
Justice, Humanity, and Kony
I shared the KONY 2012 video without ever watching it. It wasn’t until later that I learned you’re supposed to paper the town with KONY fliers. Yeah, I’m so not doing that. Even later, I realized I might have shared something I might not actually agree with. I’m still not sure, because I still haven’t…
Deserved Mercy
“The quality of mercy is not strain’d.” My kids came home from going to church with the grandparents, and their Sunday School paper showed a lesson on mercy. The handout said mercy is ‘showing more love or kindness to a person than they expect or deserve.’ ‘Or deserve’. That phrase kept rolling around in my…