What time is it?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3 This is one of those classic scriptures, right? We all know it even if we have never read the Bible. It’s made its way into our cultural consciousness - at least through music. “To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn turn...
Seeking Wholeness & God in Disease
Scripture: Excerpts from Mark 9 It was March 6th when my mom had hip replacement surgery last year. I had just entered my third trimester of pregnancy. And as I sat in the hospital waiting room, I watched a news conference on TV about the first confirmed case of...
9/11: Cracked open
18My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick. 19Hark, the cry of my poor people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”) 20“The harvest...
Holy Groundedness: Right-Sizing as Connection with Creation
Scripture: Psalm 139 and excerpt from A Wind in the Door For the past week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the trip that Maggie, Shannon, my mom and I took to Scotland exactly four years ago. We had gone to visit the land of our MacKenzie ancestors and the trip was...