Fall is one of my favorite seasons, but I do not readily welcome the winter which follows ~ which appeared today in 22-degree weather and snowfall. I have written about the tension between me and winter for the last couple…
When I was in fifth-grade, my class spent a day planting pine tree seedlings to fill areas of a local forest left bare by a lumber company cutting down trees. It was our Earth Day project and I was so…
I read a book by Lauren F. Winner called Mudhouse Sabbath. Lauren converted from Judaism to Christianity and this wonderful little book is about the traditions from Judaism that she believes would enrich the Christian faith in tangible, day-to-day ways.…
Sabbath rest. I don’t think God will let me leave this for some time ~ probably because I need it the most. My days are full of lists, and busyness, and chores, and studying, and taking care of people. I…
They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved. They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness? True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, streams flowed abundantly,…