This past weekend, in light of the crowds storming our nation’s Capitol, a Spiritual Director I follow, Rev. Summer Joy, issued this “hard and holy invitation” of compassion, even towards those at the capitol, to her weekend readers: As I meditated on these verses from Matthew: “When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on […]
advent 2020, week 3: do we deserve joy?
What do you deserve? It seems like a weird question, but also one that I think most of us have a pretty negative answer for. For me, I tend to think I deserve “bad things.” I never out-right say that, and you probably don’t either. It comes out in a different way: “I don’t deserve […]
advent 2020, week 1: only the beginning
Advent is only the beginning In the gospels For the last four months, I’ve been reading & rereading the gospels each month. This year has held a lot of division: from politics to injustice to how to act during a pandemic. I have felt this acutely, and as the peak of political season approached, I […]
A Life of Freedom
Another round of #fromthejournalfridays shocked me as I opened this journal to find … almost all blank pages. I used to be notorious about leaving journals or devotionals half-done. This journal started out as a place to read through Exodus with a friend, and I just stopped writing about each chapter at some point. One […]
Let Light Shine
This week’s #fromthejournalfridays takes us to one of my first journals where I wrote about the Bible. I am very different from the fresh-out-of-high-school girl that I was in 2009, but creating a habit of just being in the word was (and is) important to me, so I’m thankful for these words I poured over […]
Behold his love
#fromthejournalfridays is a real throwback today, to an old (literally the spine is separating) bible study journal of mine, where I studied several books of the bible and took notes on a few verses at a time. This entry was about God’s love. January 22, 2014 Notes on 1st John 3.1-3 “Behold what wonderful love […]