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“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone. When the kings and the princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flock, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild…

We began from rest. In all of my years of following Jesus, reading the Bible, and taking classes in seminary, I had never heard anyone discuss this idea or considered it myself. Instead, it came from Eryn Lynum and her book The Nature of Rest, which she discusses on the 1000 Hours Outside podcast (episode…

I continue to be amazed by the incarnation and what it actually means. In the time of Artificial Intelligence and Chat GPT, where everything is at our fingertips and is faster and more efficient, the incarnation hits differently because it was anything but that. The cost was also so much greater than the time and…

“Look at me! Look at me, Mama!” my six-year-old daughter giggled as she bounded through a cartwheel in our backyard. She had been working on that cartwheel for weeks with the help of an older friend in the neighborhood, and this was the first time she succeeded in getting her feet up over her head…

Unflustered wholeness. Joys ample. Haven ensured. God’s presence. Eden had it all. With just two bites, a severance of cosmic proportions came between God and us because we chose to go our own way. Eden was lost, but the memory has stayed with us, and we continue to pursue Edenic peace. God’s extravagant love was…

400 years of God silence between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. Israel was occupied by Roman outsiders. Resistance unsuccessful. Hope seemingly deferred. This is the moment God chose for Jesus to enter the world as a baby, born into poverty and completely powerless. Light in the darkness…

Sometimes the dark is very dark. Sometimes the night is very long. As the year comes to a close and we begin to prepare for Advent, we can get stuck by what we see with our human eyes. The hunger, the injustice, the wars, all very real things, and we haven’t even necessarily got to…

I opened my simple prayer folder and took my time looking over each name. I’m currently leading a MomCo table at a local church, and I had written the names of each woman, her partner, and her children with their ages on sticky notes and then placed them on a sheet of paper. Folding it…

As the school year was coming to a close, I was eagerly awaiting the walk down the aisle to my fiancé and the walk across a stage to earn a Master of Divinity. Time was filled with joy, anticipation, and larger-than-life dreams as I attempted to balance these big changes with my full-time ministry job….

Leading up to the holiday season, I share three things I do every year to help me celebrate intentionally and linger with God: communicate, cultivate, and connect. You can find the first post on communication (and how to avoid potential disagreements) here and the second post on cultivating a Christmas plan here. What makes Christmas…