When I was ten years old, my family moved into a neighborhood with a Jewish synagogue two blocks from our house. Each week, on Saturday, our streets filled with cars and those cars carried faithful, orthodox Jewish worshipers who drove to our neighborhood so they could walk to worship. It was …
Sunday
When it comes right down to it, that verse sums up my prayers for The Sunday Community. If you've found something here that has helped to make God more accessible to you, that's more than incredible. God is so very close to us, and he reveals himself in so many ways. One of the ways God opens the …
What Silence Does
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Those girls were kidnapped on April 15. It was before I turned fifty, before I went to Maui, before Easter and Good Friday. But I didn't hear about …
It Doesn’t Have to be Perfect…
One of my favorite things is having people in my tiny house. We can never have too many people—perched on the edge of the couch; sprawled out on the basement floor; feet tucked up beneath them in the big, overstuffed living room chairs. I love any reason to cook up a big batch of something on the …
Because You’ve Got Gifts | An Open Call for JumpingTandem: The Retreat
Simone was the very first blogging friend I met in real life. It was back in 2010 and, back then, Simone was still living in California. My son was graduating from college in Ventura, so Simone and I decided we should meet face-to-face. No one in my family felt comfortable with this brilliant …
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(in)RL and a Giveaway
This is the first year I won't actually be at an (in)RL meet up. The first year, Michelle and I hosted a meet up together. Michelle opened her home, and her husband made scones, and a group of women—some I knew, and some I'd never met before—sat in Michelle's living room and made friendships that …