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What do I diligently schedule? Written on paper or added to a digital calendar: doctor's appointments, work, grocery shopping, school events, church events, vacation, financial planning, or spiritual retreat? What have I committed to and created space for?

I look up and see him standing on a rocky ledge where the path abruptly moves upward. I walk over to the steep incline where Jesus looks down from the ledge and extends his hand to grasp mine.  Leaning on my walking stick with one hand, I reach for Jesus with the other. With a firm grip he effortlessly lifts me up and over the boulders to the place he stands. I feel his calloused hand holding mine–he doesn’t let go.

I contemplate my pack which seems to have grown bigger than I remember; it is full and bulging at the seams. I feel the tension in my chest and the knot in my gut, and I just don’t want to keep going like this... so burdened and weighed down. I see a shadowy figure approaching. The figure draws near with a steady gait, and I know it is him. How I need him, but I feel so foolish in this struggle and angst.

Consider the dashboard of your car with all the gauges and warning lights; consider the dashboard for you. Are there warning lights and gauges for my life?

How can we pay attention to the new growth that God is producing in and through our lives?

Gods invitation to rest and renewal

There are challenging seasons in life. We know it, and we live it. So what does intentional rest and soul stewardship look and feel like...

"Seeking self-awareness when obstacles and opposition emerge." We have navigated such a difficult stretch these last two years. It has...

Have you watched The Chosen this last year? Despite very different preferences on many things, my husband and I both found this series on...

There are moments when we notice our deep longing for God. It may be that moment in a crisis when our need shouts at us. Perhaps it is in...

My daughter has been writing the exhortation "faith over fear" on cards and notes for the last few months. The phrase calls us to live...

I looked at my gas gauge as I pulled into our driveway for the third time that day, and I realized I was down to a quarter tank of gas. I...

What do you think of when you consider the phrase "an undivided heart?" We live in a world where we see and experience great beauty,...

Check out the Events page for this winter retreat coming in two weeks. Praying the Masquerade February 20, Saturday 9-10:45am Zoom...

The New Year is an opportunity to look back and look forward. With the slower pace of winter, and especially in this ongoing season of...

This is a season unlike any other—we know it and we feel it. Our rhythms have been disrupted: rhythms for worship, connection,...

Encounter is an invitation to engage God with an open heart. God pursues our hearts, and we respond: it is a sacred encounter. We open to...

The master craftsman prepares the clay. Pounded and pressed. Kneaded and pounded. The lump of unformed clay is placed on the wheel and...

As we experience the tension of hope and creativity against the sadness and grief of suffering we feel the weightiness these days. We...

Time?! Time is limited. Sometimes the hours seem to race by or slip through our fingers... and we scramble to hold on. Other days the...