We often host travelers in our home through a housesitting app, a brave chance to meet up with strangers, invite them to care for our home and pets, and then overlap with them for a few days or weeks- getting to know each other’s quirkiness and culture. This year we have hosted German students for aContinue reading “Making Room”
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Dazzling with Disability
The daring edge of disability creates beauty all around us. Painters, poets, musicians. Presidents, speakers, and many movers and shakers. Among these are people living full lives with limitations. Most of us have been touched by disability- the frailty of body or mind at one juncture of our own lives or our loved ones. WithoutContinue reading “Dazzling with Disability”
Chanting Our Own Songs
Growing up, my mom had “a song for every occasion and some for no occasion.” We sang in the bathtub, in the car, in the grocery store, for our great grandmas, and before bed. Some of the songs were silly, some reverent, and some in the Danish language, which is my mom’s heritage. We eachContinue reading “Chanting Our Own Songs”
Rahab and Resilience
Rahab who lived on the edge of the city of Jericho is revealed in the book of Joshua in Hebrew Scriptures as a pretty shrewd and plucky character. What would you do if two foreign spies showed up at your house and sought shelter? These two shady characters were sent by Joshua to scout outContinue reading “Rahab and Resilience”
Trusting Trail Angels
Who are your trail angels that appear at pivotal moments?
Ballooning as a Bouquet
We do live in a world where sinister sells, and generosity of intention gets obscured. What energy do you lend toward hope, and how do you sustain it?
Listening in the Snow
Whether you are outside looking in, or bravely entering the elements, there are seasons with particular invitation to slow, listen, and restore.
Await
So much priority is given to Now and Instant these days.
This Advent season, remember the sacred practices of Await, and Be Watchful.
Sensing Sufficiency
Sensing sufficiency is a struggle, in me and around me.
What would it take to feel like there will be enough?
Letting Go
How does this season invite you to release and let go?
When you release, are you making room for something new?
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