The Resurrection and COVID-19

Each time we record a service it seems we have heard from our Governor once again that social distancing and #stayinshelter will be lasting a little longer. Each time I have been telling our Pastor it just means we are going to have one heck of an Easter Sunday. This morning I was thinking why …

The Good Thing

As a wife and mother of 4 kids I've got it pretty good during this time of social distancing. Do I get aggravated and overwhelmed with the amount of noise and number of questions I am asked? You Bet! Do I miss people? Yes. One of my things I do is drink coffee with people. …

During Social Distancing…

Here is what I am up to during social distancing. I'd love to hear what you are doing or what your plans are. Drinking Coffee.... The hubby and I are both coffee drinkers and we are both home now. We brew 2-3 pots a day. He has a make shift office set up in our …

Lovely Ladies

Two weekends ago I was invited into a lovely group of women. I am so thankful for each and everyone one of them. They shared with me and with one another so much about what roads they have walked. The beautiful things they shared were not always the roads. We all walk rocky, dark, and …

Therefore…

Therefore: for that reason, consequently Having a word for the year seems to be a popular thing. I shy away from new years resolutions and from these words of the years becuase, for me, it's just one more thing to not get done on my to do list. Before the new year came around I …

The Gift of Faith: Wandering or Lost

I am 34 years old and have never had a ‘real’ career and I have a college degree.  A B.A. in communications from Bethany Lutheran College.  When I graduated, I started working at the lumber yard I had worked at the summer before (because that is where my dad had worked for 25 years…I wonder …

The Gift of Faith: The Wrestling Match

The Christian life can be confusing.  We have a God who has accomplished it all for us and still works in our lives, yet we still struggle, and life is difficult.  We struggle with our own sin and the sin of others around us.  We even struggle with God. Jacob is a man who struggled …

The Gift of Faith: His Work. Our Life.

This week we have settled in on the story of this family.  Abraham, Sarah, and their son Isaac.  Despite Abraham trying to tell pharaoh’s that his wife was his cousin.  Despite Sarah telling Abraham to sleep with her servant.  Despite Isaac almost being sacrificed.  God used this family to bring hope, in the flesh, into …

The Gift of Faith: Laughter

Christ works in the barren places.  He brings life to places that only knew death.  He brings life where it never has been before.  Sarah had been unable to bear a child.  New life had not been created in her womb. These passages speak over and over again of what their faith did.  If we …

The Gift of Faith: He Promised. He is Faithful.

So Abraham. I’m not sure why I picked this guy to write about. Honestly, I think I have a lot more in common with Sarah. Woman who gets tired of waiting for God’s plan? Yep. Woman who talks her husband into a crazy plan because God’s timing doesn’t make sense? Um, yes. She and I …