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The Father and the Daughter
As I sat on the bed wrapped in the white motel towel, my wet hair dripping down my back, the tears started to fall. Had my life really come to this? Alone? Hungry? Tired? Sleeping in an old motel room with a view of the interstate? What had I done? The walls felt as though they [...]
Continue reading...Detested Jealousy
12. April 2010
I want to call in sick, use my get out of jail free card or whatever the proper etiquette is to get out of blogville this week. Truth be told, Luke 14 makes me squirm. A lot. Take verse 26 for example. A large crowd is traveling with Jesus, when suddenly Jesus says, “If anyone [...]
Continue reading...People Lover
4. April 2010
After a long, hot two-mile climb up the mountain, we stood at the top to catch our breath. Behind us stood the TiBoukan school. In front of us spread Haiti’s Leogane Plain. No less than fifty men, women and children gathered around. Soon we’d go house to house delivering supplies. But for the moment we [...]
Continue reading...Flight 1776
28. March 2010
It was late afternoon on Tuesday as the clouds rolled in and the temperature began to drop. I refused to believe we were in for yet another snowstorm in Colorado. It had been a beautiful spring day on Monday with temperatures near 70 degrees. Now the thermometer was dropping quickly and a [...]
Continue reading...Relearning
21. March 2010
As a young child, I had to stand up each week and recite a short paragraph in front of 100 people. Well, maybe not in front of. With. Everyone said it with me. But I always felt like people were listening to me, eager to know if I’d correctly say the large words that made [...]
Continue reading...To Stop or To Walk
15. March 2010
“But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’” ~ Luke 10:29 Mark Twain once said “Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.” Funny and sobering at the same time. When I think about Jesus’ parable of the good Samaritan, I can’t help but agree with Twain. How many times have [...]
Continue reading...Percentage is No Way to Measure
7. March 2010
Something caught me off guard this week as I was packing lunchboxes for my children one morning. I was half listening to the national news when I heard our President state in a press conference, that “he had quit smoking 95%.” What does that even mean? What are the parameters for determining such a [...]
Continue reading...Twelve Against One
28. February 2010
13. That was my answer to a friend’s text asking how many people I personally know who are unemployed. Thirteen! A baker’s dozen wondering if they will keep their house or how they’ll pay this month’s bills. Luke 8:14 talks about those whose faith is choked out by life’s worries. Some of my thirteen unemployed [...]
Continue reading...Four Portraits of Followers
21. February 2010
Luke 7 paints four different portraits, real people in real life dilemmas: 1. The Humble Outsider: A Roman Centurian pursues Jesus as his only hope for a dear and dying servant. He is the least likely person to understand Jesus’ power to save, and yet he is the one who truly believes in Jesus’ Godness. Even [...]
Continue reading...If Truth Be Told…
14. February 2010
It was the Sabbath, a very sacred day for us Jews. You see, our law explains quite clearly that we are not to do any form of work on the Sabbath. So, you can imagine my shock this one particular Sabbath. I was walking near the synagogue when I heard a commotion. [...]
Continue reading...More than he Longed For
7. February 2010
Some of my friends had tuberculosis a few years ago. In order to prevent spreading this highly contagious disease, they had to stay in their apartment all day, every day. They ordered groceries online with instructions for the food to be placed outside their door. Only at night were they allowed to leave their enclosure, [...]
Continue reading...Flint-Faced
1. February 2010
May 27, 2002, Boulder, Colorado. The day of my first 10K running race. Sixty-two minutes later, as I crossed the finish line in front of 40,000 fans, I looked only for the faces of my husband and three little boys in the crowd, cheering me to the very end. They’d driven over an hour and [...]
Continue reading...Harsh Words and a Difficult Lesson
24. January 2010
Almost every week my eight-year-old daughter comes to me on two different occasions—once on Tuesday and once on Thursday. Sometimes she doesn’t even have to speak. I just know by her facial expression what she’s thinking. On Tuesdays she asks me if she has to go to dance class that day. Each [...]
Continue reading...Jesus no where to be Found
17. January 2010
Jerusalem A twelve year old boy has been missing the past three days. His parents, Mary and Joseph, were returning to Nazareth after celebrating the Passover and mistakenly believed Jesus was in their company. It wasn’t until they traveled a day that they realized the child was not with any of their relatives. They immediately [...]
Continue reading...A Four-Letter Word That Makes All the Difference
10. January 2010
“Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.” ~ Jeremiah 32:17 Luke 1 reveals two impossible scenarios (as if one isn’t enough!): A elderly couple, too old to reasonably think about child-rearing, but praying for it with hoarse voices just the [...]
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17. April 2010
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