Readings: Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; 2 Samuel 7: 23-29; John 3:31-36 As I mentioned yesterday, I’m thinking a lot about freedom. Maybe because of where our country is headed. Maybe because of the terror of the days in Aleppo. Maybe because I have been thinking a lot about our prison system that is based on money […]
Readings: Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; 2 Samuel 7:18-22: Galatians 4:1-7 How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you! (2 Samuel 7:22) We have never even heard of another God like you. What a great sentence! (Good one King David!) But when […]
Readings: Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; 2 Samuel 7:1-17; Galatians 3:23-29 There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28) I was raised in the church. A church encumbered by patriarchy. A church where women were (and mostly still are) second class citizens, […]
Readings: Psalm 42; Zechariah 8:1-17; Matthew 8:14-17; 28-34 Genocide. Today the headlines are filled to the brink with the genocide, torture, rape, and devastation. 400,000 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war. 4.8 million refugees have fled the brutality by retreating into other nations. 6.6 million have been displaced (as in made homeless) […]
Readings: Psalm 42; Ezekiel 47:1-12; Jude 17-25 Yesterday I had a couple hard conversation. My goal was to be understood…to be seen and heard…to be really clear about where I stand on the day to day going on around me. To do so involved being vulnerable. Really open and available to the men I was […]
Readings: Psalm 42; Isaiah 29:17-24; Acts 5:12-16 Today I need to be very present in my work day. I need to be able to listen well. I need to be able to articulate what I need, what the team needs, what our clients need. It is a day like so many other days. And […]
Readings: Isaiah 35:1-10; Psalm 146: 5-10; Luke 1:46b-55; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11 “Pick a word for 2017,” my friend Nicole said. “A word that means something to you for next year,” she said. “An intention.” And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their […]
Readings: Psalm 146: 5-10; 1 Samuel 2:1-8; Luke 3:1-18 At my writing group this week we used the following prompt, “Money, time, and skill not being a problem, if I could give myself one gift, it would be….” Three of the four of us writing said we would quit our jobs and give ourselves a […]
Readings: Psalm 146:5-10; Ruth 4:13-17; 2 Peter 3: 11-18 The temperatures in Seattle this week have been cold. Yes, I know it’s almost winter and that we are sort of wimpy about it all up here in the Pacific Northwest, compared to most other places. But did YOU know that one of the reasons why […]
Readings: Psalm 146:5-10; Ruth 1:6-18; 2 Peter 3:11-18 When I read the passage from the book of Ruth for today, I am reminded of how often this passage is equated to romantic love between a man and a women and read at Christian weddings. While the sentiment does hold, the relationship here is between two […]