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...
Flower Meditation for Elly
Faithful. Committed. Peaceful. Courageous. These are just a few of the words I think about when I think about Elly. And I’ve been thinking about you, Elly, so much since we learned your time alive on this earth is far more limited than any of us were hoping. You are a...