An invitation to spend time with God
Welcome to Day 9 of our Deeply Loved Lenten journey. (By the way, if you'd like more frequent updates on this journey, follow me on Instagram or Facebook where I'm posting video devotionals every weekday.) [...]
Welcome to Day 9 of our Deeply Loved Lenten journey. (By the way, if you'd like more frequent updates on this journey, follow me on Instagram or Facebook where I'm posting video devotionals every weekday.) [...]
Looking for a devotional to guide you through Lent (which starts next week)? What if you could give up worry and fear for Lent? And replace them with love? What if Lent offers 40 chances [...]
Last week, my crocuses bloomed brave and bright. Today, there is a 100 percent chance of snow. We’re in the slog of Midwestern spring, which is not really spring at all, but rather weather that teases [...]
I went for a run this week in the woods. The subzero weather has abated, and things are beginning to melt. But the path shaded by tall, bare trees remains hidden from sunlight, and still [...]
About a year ago, I remember feeling a bit of mild panic as I took the last container of Clorox Wipes from a now empty shelf in Target. Something big was going on. We had [...]
How are you doing? Really? Yosemite National Park. (Photo by Melanie Kent) How’s the journey so far, Lenten pilgrim? Is Lent, and the practices you've chosen in this season, clearing the cobwebs? Spring [...]
Part of me did not want to go to church. Another part of me longed for it, in a shaky, hungry sort of way. The hunger won out. At The Practice, the gathering we attend [...]
I didn’t expect to usher in Lent feeling angry at God, but that’s how it went down. On Shrove Tuesday, my fervent prayers for a dear friend that I love and walk beside went unanswered. [...]
My friend Jen is Episcopal, and the girl knows her way around The Book of Common Prayer --a book I never even heard of until I was in college. I'm vaguely jealous of her familiarity [...]
As Deeply Loved daughters and sons of God, our response is to spill out that love to others. To engage in living out our faith by serving others. As my friend Tim Fall points, out, [...]