Lately I’ve taken to listening to the audio Bible on YouVersion’s Bible app in the mornings as I exercise or as I’m getting ready for work. I have been out of spiritual practice, so since I’m exercising regularly, I figure coupling my physical exercise with some kind of spiritual exercise is a wise move.I’m listeningContinueContinue reading “Crazy Jesus Parables and Dead Pigs”
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Flavor Enhancement
One of the benefits of cutting down or eliminating added sweeteners to food and eating mostly natural ingredients is that everything tastes better. It isn’t necessarily that the food itself changed, but the palate that is receiving the food is cleansed and ready to taste fully whatever it is that it is about to consume. It isn’tContinueContinue reading “Flavor Enhancement”
Getting in Love
Our church is in its annual At the Movies summer series right now, and today the pastor spoke using the movie, The Vow. I haven’t seen the movie in its entirety but I’m sure that I’ll like it, given the clips I saw this morning. It’s a romance; I might have to watch it withContinueContinue reading “Getting in Love”
Corrective Lenses and Parenting
I have been cranky all night and the peanut butter and banana plus chocolate dessert is not helping. It is a shame, too, because it’s just about as perfect of a night as there could be in mid-June. It is still light at 8:30 and the neighborhood is milking every last second of daylight. TheContinueContinue reading “Corrective Lenses and Parenting”
Book Two 2012 – Celebration of Discipline
Our small group worked through Richard J. Foster’s Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth the first few months of 2012. In an effort to put spiritual disciplines into practice, our group spent a week on each chapter trying out the Inward Disciplines: Meditation, Prayer, Fasting, and Study, and the Outward Disciplines: Simplicity, Solitude,ContinueContinue reading “Book Two 2012 – Celebration of Discipline”
Book One – Best Spiritual Writing 2012
Well, I finally finished a book. It took me a while, mostly because I’ve been a lazy reader, but also because this fine book was just thick with the stuff that gets you thinking. The Best Spiritual Writing 2012 is a diverse and stimulating collection that includes both poetry and essay, work about wonder andContinueContinue reading “Book One – Best Spiritual Writing 2012”
Laws and Ordinances
I’ve been reading in the psalms lately and have noticed a common trend that I found bizarre. The psalmists spend a lot of time thanking God for his rules/law/precepts/ordinances etc. I don’t know that I have ever thanked God for his law, so I’ve been thinking about this a bit and have come up withContinueContinue reading “Laws and Ordinances”
Creativity in Worship
Recently I started working with the worship team at our church, and I’ve been having so much fun. I don’t sing, and while I might be able to toot a tune on the ol’ licorice stick, there isn’t a whole lot of room for a clarinet in our contemporary worship band. Unless we start playingContinueContinue reading “Creativity in Worship”
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
I woke up with yesterday’s frustrations heavy on my chest and lodged in my gut, a physical ache I’d like to attribute only to a glass of wine before bed and not enough water. I padded down the hall and wondered whether I could convince Henry to go back to sleep after he ate so I couldContinueContinue reading “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
Confessions of a Tubal Ligation
It’s been a week since our newest, and last, son – Henry Delbert – arrived safely into the world via c-section. He is absolutely beautiful, perfectly content and as predictable of a baby as I’ve experienced. Ever since we became pregnant with Henry, I’ve been coming to terms with this being our last baby -ContinueContinue reading “Confessions of a Tubal Ligation”
Sarah Marie Wells 