Sabbatical Announcement and Learning to Rest
Our family is walking away from the daily routines of life and learning to rest. What's behind our sabbatical announcement and learning to rest? Here are the details about our…
Our family is walking away from the daily routines of life and learning to rest. What's behind our sabbatical announcement and learning to rest? Here are the details about our…
At its best, gratitude is a way to live in the midst of a world of pain and grief, not a way to cut ourselves off from that grief. Gratitude…
As easy as it is to rattle off a gratitude list, it's just as easy to rattle off a list of things that cause grumpiness. How is gratitude the antidote…
[If you are looking for my Love Is Stronger Than Fear podcast, please go here.] When our daughter Penny was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome, fear felt incredibly powerful.…
I’ve written several posts (like this one) on themes related to disability recently in honor of Down Syndrome Awareness Month. WORKSHOP I'd also love for you to check out my…
Penny has grown up going to church with our family. She’s also grown up with parents who pray, read the Bible, and offer sporadic attempts to include their children in…
This post, one in a series about my time in El Paso (check out the other posts here and here), offers ways that you can respond to the immigration crisis,…
There’s a lot of goodness in learning how to be present, how to sink deeply into this moment, how to let go of the regrets of the past and the…
The United States’ immigration crisis is on the forefront of my mind after a recent visit to El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. In this post (the first of a…
We celebrated going back to school last week with a dinner out at our local tavern. I used to ask the kids pretty regularly how they've grown in their bodies,…