“What will you do to make this season different?” Our pastor challenged us with that question — and a few others — during our 2021 Ash Wednesday service as we began the season of Lent leading to Easter. It’s a question I thought about quite a bit during different times over the next several months… Continue reading 5 minutes a day to make 2022 different
Category: What I’ve Learned Lately
Thank you for your service
I noticed the man several times as I made my way up and down the grocery store aisles. Old jeans, faded red t-shirt, thinning white hair. He was shopping alone, and I overheard him asking other customers for help finding things a few times. As I walked past the shelves of sports drinks, I heard… Continue reading Thank you for your service
Restarting after getting stuck
A wasp is caught between the window and screen above our kitchen sink. How did it get there? We can’t see the slit that it must have slipped through, but some sort of opening must be there. Now the wasp can’t seem to find its way back to the hidden opening either, so it crawls… Continue reading Restarting after getting stuck
Embrace the fact that you’re an encourager
I have always been a predominantly optimistic, glass-half-full kind of person. That’s not to say I don’t get discouraged or say negative things or sometimes play the “what if something terrible happens” game — because I do. Two important realizations related to this struck me a few weeks ago: I’m not just a person with… Continue reading Embrace the fact that you’re an encourager
