Women and girls have been hoodwinked into believing that obtaining an ideal body should be a life goal. For many women, exercise is a necessary evil to be endured as we strive toward the always-elusive goal of bodily perfection ... or, to be most honest, bodily improvement. We may not think we are buying in […]
Wake up and roll out of bed ... Hug the husband, Start the coffee, Make the bed, Water the garden, Empty the dishwasher, Take out the trash, Scrabble together some lunch. Morning chores ... mundane, monotonous; the ordinary stuff of our ordinary days. Necessary jobs using up (wasting?) our precious time. The boring by-products of […]
There is a fabulous book out called More Than A Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament. Haven't read it yet, but it is on my list. Most women have been convinced that our bodies are designed for "ornamental" purposes - to be seen, liked, admired, to be looked at, assessed and (hopefully) found […]
I preached this weekend on Jesus' command for his followers to love their enemies. This, I believe, is Jesus' hardest command. It is so antithetical to all we are encouraged to do in this dog-eat-dog world. In my final moments, I talked about how one of our greatest enemies is the one we encounter in […]
Our bodies are prophets. They know when things are out of whack and they say so. (Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World) I had surgery a week ago to remove part of a herniated disc that was pressing on my sciatic nerve. The surgery went well; herniation removed, the nerve is freed, and […]
After dealing with back pain for months, I am going to have surgery. It has been hard to admit I need help. Even harder to admit that I need the kind of help that will take me out of the game for a bit. Hard to admit I am human, I am frail, I often […]
