Art by messycanvas bumped from the archives I jump when they say, “Boo!” Why does my heart race and I feel alarm even when laughter has covered their faces, and I feel no shame in having been gotten? This fear, where does it come from? ***** It comes from sitting on the toilet and…
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Day 13 – Owning Our Brokenness – Silver Linings Playbook
Day 9 – Introducing Structural Racism to Kids
[blockquote cite=”James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain” type=”left”]She looked out into the quiet, sunny streets, and for the first time in her life, she hated it all – the white city, the white world. She could not, that day, think of one decent white person in the whole world. She sat there, and…
Incarnation – It Means Something!
Conservative Christianity has not taught me to be a healthy person, and it has not taught me how to raise healthy children. The view I was raised with, the advice I keep seeing handed out, the wisdom I listened to for 90 minutes this morning, basically assumes everything needed for life – even for…
Embracing Lent with the Family
“Underwear!” “Pillows!” “Hotdogs!” “Butts!” giggle giggle giggle We were discussing Ash Wednesday and Lent and what the kids could sacrifice. I’ve only ‘done’ lent once or twice before, both times only nominally ‘successful’. So in preparing to talk to the kids about it, to try and figure out a way that this could be…
In Defense of Strong Women
5 Kids Do Not a Quiet Time Make
The kids are all in their rooms or quietly playing outside, the daily after-lunch quiet time attempting to get underway. I sit at my desk, opening my prayer book, wanting connection and peace before I begin to write. I get one sentence in. O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you as the…