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“About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni ?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me ?’” Matthew 27:46 I’ve been rereading the gospel accounts of Holy Week and keep coming back to these words. For most of my life I’ve heard pastors and theologians argue the idea of whether […]

(This refers to a book my Dad loved called Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach) Sitting among giant cacti. Watching the sun set. The silence almost otherwordly. I hear some sort of bird flying by. It seems so out of place, as if it had lost its way in the world and ended up in […]

I don’t like to be wrong, but sometimes it’s worse to be right. I’m a worrier by nature. I routinely fear that the worst will happen so I’ve learned a tool that has helped me combat those worries over the years. I remind myself that our fears hardly ever happen. Being attacked by a shark, […]

We build walls so easily. So naturally. Without realizing it, our hands pick up stones and mindlessly lay them one upon another.   One for grief. Another for betrayal.  Another for shame, abandonment, loss, disappointment,,,  Year after year these walls reach higher and higher though we instinctively know what we truly need and what we […]

Over the last month, various circumstances have aligned to remind me of an obvious and basic truth of life.  It’s as if God has been setting up dominoes  in an intricate pattern of intertwining circles that would eventually topple into one another only to end in a mess at the center of it all.  A […]

How is it possible?  How can a memory hold such power that the thought of it stirs up emotion that causes goosebumps to form on her arm?  How could such an insignificant memory have such a profound impact on years of her life? How can a grown woman hold such a small memory inside her […]