Blogging Through the Seasons

This season, we’re pausing for a minute or two each day, to hear different members of our community share the specific moment they’re missing the most this Advent, and how that longing relates to our deep Advent longing, “Oh come, oh come...

Two years ago my father’s Christmas gift to my brother and I was a trip to New York City to see family and tour the Big Apple. My father likes to say that it doesn’t really feel like Christmas unless he’s in New York City. There’s something about the cold crisp winter...

In Advent we journey on, day by day, through a mix of emotions—expectation, hope, joy, longing, pain, weariness—an apt metaphor for life.  In the same way, in this blog post, instead of a coherent story or message, I invite you to experience a mishmash of poems all...

“Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?” Matthew 2:2 (Amplified Bible) “I know I don’t know you, but God told me you are defiantly the one He chose.” Tears streaming down my cheeks, I stared down at my phone in disbelief. This unexpected, yet perfectly timed...

I’m a planner. A researcher. A know-all-the-things-before-you-make-a-decision person. So when my friend Katie invited me to her home for an afternoon of gingerbread house decorating, tea and pie, and relaxing with her and her three-year-old (does one ever really relax...

Prepare. Or don’t. Patience. Angst. Anticipation. Dread. Looking and waiting for the coming Christ is far more troubling and swirly than the arrival. As I anticipate holiday celebrations, the hamster wheel in my head is at full speed. But then I can sit quietly...