There's church, and then there's church, and it's easy to get the two confused. First of all, there's the church building. Ours was built in the 1960's. It's got orange carpet, a skylight over the pulpit, and stained glass windows that have a retro feel - if you can imagine that. The particular …
Redeemed
The last time I'd been to Green Lake was forty years ago! What in the world? How did that happen? Naturally, nothing was as I remembered. Some things were older, some were new, some things had been moved, and other things (the outdoor pool I wandered around looking for until someone finally told me …
Green Lake
Tonight, we walked out on the peninsula where a willow tree grows horizontally, and stretches its limbs out over the lake. It's got that kind of twisted wood that tells a story, if you can make your way out over the water to sit on a branch and let your heart be quiet. We climbed 121 steps to the …
Unscripted
On the last day of Summer Adventure (our church's version of Vacation Bible School), we kept the kids from running across the picnic tables one last time, sang "Pharaoh-Pharaoh" one last time, stumbled our way through the skits one last time, applied the last band-aid, dispensed the last hug, and …
Abide (It’s Just One Thing)
In the morning, before I swing my feet from beneath the sheets and onto the hardwood floor, I check my phone. The dog stretches in the corner of the room and then the back half of her body begins its gleeful back-and-forth to greet the day. We always say she's the type of dog who would betray us if …
Higgs Boson, Fractals, Jonah, and Tuna Salad (or, the place where all things begin)
I was making tuna salad for my son and he and I were talking about fractals. I have one of those manual can openers from Pampered Chef. Whenever I open a can of tuna, it takes twelve turns of the wrist. I count things like that. I always have. I count the steps I take as I run, I count the number …