A friend and I have been together on a journey to slow down; our bodies have been telling us they need less busy-ness. With our jobs as “chief purchasing officers” and “head chauffeurs” for our families, not to mention our positions as “chief cooks and bottle washers” we can be busy, busy, busy about many …
In that same NPR story, the women had experienced people saying well-meaning but terribly hurtful things, as had many of the people who posted comments on the site afterwards. When I hear what some Christians say to others, especially to someone in difficult circumstances, I often cringe. God is a name, a placeholder, for that …
I go to the kitchen to pull some meat off chicken bones for dinner. NOT one of my favorite tasks! The chicken is cold, there’s little bits of bone and skin that you have to be careful to get off the chicken, and I am not a detail person. But, I am a good cook, …
I need to tackle the name of this blog again. It started when I was overseas but I never really wrote about cooking and grace in Lagos, Nigeria! (see earlier post on this subject) There are a couple of things about me that I love. I love to cook and bake, and I see Grace …
I am always fascinated by stories of faith or the apparent lack of faith. NPR recently ran a series on how people are losing religion, and coping without it. It things agot me thinking. One is that underlying the story is a confusion of terms: faith is not the same thing as religion. Atheists have …
I am hungry as if I am pregnant. So hungry I can hardly believe it, and I need to eat every two hours or so. My last menstrual cycle was 2 1/2 years ago! I couldn’t be pregnant could I? At 50 years old? It can happen. My first reaction is to feel like a …
Now this one really gives me pause as I am sure it does many of you. Blessed are the meek? For they shall inherit the earth? No way that can be true! In this world you have to give it all you have got; you have to go out and pull yourself up by your …
Someone close to me recently suggested that I work on forgiving my mother. I really thought I had. I have great compassion for my mother. I am certain that she had a very hard early life and that meeting and marrying my father only compounded the difficulties, until she found she was completely unable to …
Some people see, and have a need to experience the God of their understanding as a rule-giving God. I have always understood God as showing us the way things work: if you do this, then this will happen. You are human and these are the things that are going to work for you to be …
The Beatitudes are the Promises that Jesus gives us. He promises that if we fully give ourselves to God, if we place ourselves before God, humbly, actively ask God to be involved in every aspect of our lives, we will be blessed. As I look at the Beatitudes, I see the 12 Promises of Alcoholics …