March 16-22, 2022
“What does it mean to be people of peace in these times?” This is the question beginning a recent Facebook post from Mennonite Central Committee, and one I am asking myself often. It’s also the question the FMC high school seniors have sought to answer in their peace essays – essays I am really appreciating […]
Read postMarch 10-15, 2022
Rhythm matters. Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been accompanying Hutchinson middle school string players, helping them prepare for State Contest (which was supposed to be March 10 and sadly was cancelled due to the snowy weather forecast). Let me tell you, without rhythm (and a steady beat), there’s no way we’d be able to […]
Read postFebruary 23-March 8, 2022
Today, I invite you to join in prayer for Ukraine, using a prayer provided Mennonite Central Committee (originally included in the 2017 Peace Prayers Packet) https://mcc.org/stories/crisis-ukraine Our loving God, As you look down on your children in Ukraine, we ask that you bring this military conflict to an end as quickly as possible. Change the […]
Read postFebruary 16-22, 2022
“Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors and see all the people.” I can still remember forming ‘the church’ with my intertwined hands, sitting on a pew in Emmanuel Mennonite Church in LaJunta, CO. And ‘seeing’ all the people as I gave my fingers each a name of a friend in […]
Read postFebruary 9-15, 2022
“I have no one…” These are the first words uttered by the man who’d been ill for 38 years in response to Jesus’ question: “Do you want to be made well?” As John 5 tells it, Jesus was in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate where there was a pool which had five porticoes. In those […]
Read postFebruary 1, 2022
I put all my hope in the Lord. He leaned down to me; he listened to my cry for help.He lifted me out of the pit of death, out of the mud and filth, and set my feet on solid rock. He steadied my legs.He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise for our God.Many people will learn […]
Read postJanuary 26-February 1, 2022
A prayer for the week, adapted from John 8:12 (and found on the Lectio 365 Prayer App): “Jesus, light of the world, as I follow You today would You illuminate the darkness within me and around me. Show me Your presence and Your path as I welcome the light of life.” —Lectio 365 Prayer App […]
Read postJanuary 19-25, 2022
Gems can show up in the most unexpected places. Like our basement storage room, where I recently found a box full of letters and cards mostly from 1996, the year before Jonathan and I were married. That box held a wide variety of birthday cards, Christmas cards, and even a letter from Franconia Conference telling […]
Read postJanuary 5-18, 2022
“… they set out; and there ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy.” (Mt. 2:9-10) Like the Magi, we too are seeking Jesus. Looking in the […]
Read postDecember 21, 2021 – January 4, 2022
December 21 is the Winter Solstice, the longest night, in the northern hemisphere. Some years we have had a “Longest Night Service” on the evening of December 21 to hold space for grief around losses – of many kinds – in our lives. While we are not doing a Longest Night service this year, I […]
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