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Memo from God: Enjoy Life!
Our Middle School-aged kids finally started back with in-person school recently. After a year-and-a-half of vegetating at their desks behind computer screens in online school they were desperate to go back to IRL classes (Just showing off my recently acquired ‘with-it’ lingo. FYI, IRL = In Real Life. You can thank me later for that ...
Cry Out In A Crisis
We're slowly emerging from a harrowing season.
About a month ago, as part of a volunteer helpline, I heard people weep on the phone as they scrambled for hospital beds for their loved ones who fought for their lives. I remember the voices of some of them. A woman wailing—her mom had died and her sister ...
“Get up and call on your God”
If there’s a Sunday School story etched in our collective memories, it’s the one about Jonah and the big fish. Maybe the David and Goliath incident and Noah’s Ark are close contenders, but these three narratives take home the prize for most beloved children’s church stories of all time.
You may remember the events that unfold ...
Did the Pandemic Change Me?
The threat of the Pandemic wears thin, turns lean,
A muddle of gaunt days and anorexic dreams;
We heal from a year of promise that left us pilfered,
Of hope, of health, of humanity, of hugs unfiltered;
Did the pandemic teach me? Did it train me? Did it change me?
I didn’t un-fear the unknown – my breath caught in ...
You’ve Got A Friend In Me?
Ever since the pandemic started, I’ve been on prayer calls with three friends. Well, er, they started out as “let’s pray together for 10 minutes” calls and morphed into “let's catch up for an hour and pray at the end of the mega chat-a-thon.” (Yup, get four like-minded women in one space with almost no ...
MEET SUSAN
