Book of Job

I usually avoid that guy. Boils all over his body. Know-it-all friends. A crabby wife. But, as it turns out in the Grand Scheme of Things, I’m reading the Book of Job right now. (Yep, one of those one year Bibles has me reading Job in August. In Texas. Where the...

ICRS Reflections Part Two (long!)

Continued from the last post… A lovely thing happened after the Alive Communications event (where Eugene Peterson spoke: amazing!!). A gal approached me by saying, “I wanted to meet you ever since I read your Publisher’s Weekly review.” I had no idea people...

An ICRS Hiatus

I’m starting to feel normal again. Tomorrow I head to Denver to spend a week at ICRS. I’ll be posting sporadically about important things like creepy baby dolls and Jesus trinkets. I’ll have my first-ever ICRS book signings. I’m a little...

My Prayer for Today

Dear, dear Jesus, Thank you for the sunshine today. It’s lovely. Thanks for flowers, too. It brings me unending joy to nurture them to splendor, to walk among them like friends. Thank you for my children, my dear, dear children. Sophie’s growing up, Jesus....

The Old Has Gone…

Many of you who have read this blog have noted my lament of late. I seemed to have lost Mary. Where she is, I don’t know. I’ve grieved this. I don’t know if this is one of those knowable stages of cross-cultural adaptation, and I’m spouting off...