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Proverbs for Remaining Centered

I chose Center as my word for 2025. I wanted to explore it in a few different ways, which ended up including making a vision board and near-daily meditation. As it became more apparent that I was about to not only re-enter pastoral ministry but continue to do so alongside my other work, I developedContinue reading “Proverbs for Remaining Centered”

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Tarshish

I was in 7th grade, my family still working through a fresh series of transitions that included my father leaving his last settled pastorate (which I wrote about) and a move to a new community. It would be my third school system and, thankfully, the last one. But it was all still so raw andContinue reading “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Tarshish”

A Prayer from Outside the Sheep Pen

based on Luke 15:1-10 Faithful God, I don’t know where I am. I thought that I knew the way. I was confident in my own sense of direction. But now I’m here, wherever “here” is. I thought that I could just wander until I saw something that I recognized, but that got me even moreContinue reading “A Prayer from Outside the Sheep Pen”