Do you know what those are? Cyathus striatus, also known as “Splash Cups.” They are mushrooms. At ¼- 5/8″ high and wide, they are the largest mushrooms in a group called birds’ nests fungi. My husband, Jeff, and I saw some on our vacation last week. I squealed with delight when we found them. We’re [...]
Dale and I like to pray occasionally to our Heavenly Mother. Who are we praying to? The phrase Heavenly Mother conjures up images of fertility figures and goddesses, but we’re thinking about the traditional God-Jesus-Holy Spirit figure. You know, white robe, white hair, staff, but no white beard.
We Jesus-followers talk about God as if God [...]
Cultivate is a good word. It is a very earthy word and speaks to me of a daily effort put forth. You can hear the dirt in the word - this is a word that has the clean smell of sun and rain. Cultivate means to improve something by labor, care, or study. When I [...]
Ed talked about contentment this week in his sermon about David. What does that mean? Paul says in Philippians 4:11-12 that he knows how to be content in every situation. This is coming from a man who’s been thrown in jail more than once for talking about Jesus, beaten and left for dead, and slandered [...]
I went to Busch Gardens with some friends of mine yesterday. We had a great time. The weather was beautiful, the crowds were manageable and there were roller-coasters. I love riding roller-coasters. I almost never pass up the chance to climb into a car of some sort, get towed up a very large hill and [...]
I keep coming back to the same thing: “I don’t want to be a burden on my family”. This statement disturbs me not because it is something I fear, but because it reflects an unconscious buy-in to a culture that I think we need to address. As Christians we are not really called to use [...]
