Posted in Spiritual Life on Nov 9th, 2010
On Sunday, our children’s minister preached at church. She talked about faith and fear. She asked where in our lives are we living in fear instead of faith. I asked, Where in my life am I not living in fear? I am afraid we will never pay off the hospital bills and the car loan [...]
Posted in Spiritual Life on Oct 15th, 2010
Used to be, when Jack was a baby, and Jane too, that I lived with near-constant anxiety. I woke up in the morning with a weight of anxiety on my chest, I carried it around with me all day, and I went to bed with it at night. Sometimes it was physically difficult to breathe. [...]
Posted in Spiritual Life on Apr 30th, 2010
A few weeks ago at church, I was chatting with a friend and her oncologist husband. He noticed a rash on my arm and neck and said, “You know, sometimes people get a rash like that when they have a low platelet count.” I brushed it off, saying I’d had a rash much like it [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.
