This is a repost from last summer! For my early morning swimming//pool-walking fools! *** For mid-July, it was a cold morning. Gray clouds hovered over the pool and the summer breeze was brisk and chilly. And yet we gathered to swim. All shapes and sizes, ages and demographics. Some obviously athletic, others barely able to […]

It is amazing to me how Jesus is being used to justify the exact behaviors he preached so vociferously against. The one who declared that loving our neighbors as ourselves is God's very heartbeat is being used to justify hatred of the most vulnerable. The one who pushed the religious elite of his day to […]

We were at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota last week for a physical tune-up of sorts. In the middle of the marble-floored, high-ceilinged, main lobby area a pianist dressed in scrubs was playing her heart out. The simple melody floated through the open space. We stopped, grateful for a break from tests and appointments, […]

We were in a swanky resort in Florida for a work-related trip for my husband. We were surrounded by financial advisors and spouses. It was so lovely. On our first day there, I ran into a woman in the pool area who asked about my life and what I did for a living. "I'm a […]

The more I grow in faith, the less I know. I know that seems wrong; it seems like the more we grow, the more we should know. But I am finding the opposite to be true … it’s not that I doubt more. It’s just that I am more and more willing to say "I […]

As I sat on my porch this morning after the flurry of a few days of travel, this thought came to mind: "I am practicing living in the beautiful tension of life's imperfections." I am not great at this. My tendency, my temptation is to try to fix it all. It is hard for me […]