I am so shocked and saddened by the death of 9 saints from a South Carolina church. Such hatred. Such sadness. Such a waste of beautiful human life. I listened to the relatives of these victims speak at the bond hearing for the young murderer. And I stood at attention in my kitchen as I […]

Some people I love are burying their most precious loved ones today. I don't have words for the sadness. Sometimes poems speak for my broken heart. This one does: "And this is the consolation - that the world doesn't end, that the world one day opens up into something better, and that we one day […]

"God is too good to be unkind, and He is too wise to be mistaken. When we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart." (Charles Spurgeon)

It seems the media has really latched on to the science behind our need for sleep.  Sleep and introversion. Both have become "cool" again. Which, as an introvert who loves her some sleep, makes me very happy. And very cool. So I loved this tweet from the ever-wise Eugene Peterson: "In prep for the day […]

I read this from Thomas Merton today and it hit home: "The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many […]

How do you walk with someone experiencing the very deepest kind of grief? We are so often tempted to think we need to say something ... something deep, something that will comfort, will heal ... something profoundly spiritual. But what if the most important thing we can do is to simply show up, and be […]