Belated Request for Prayer

When I lost my job, one of my kind readers (Christov_Tenn) suggested I could always get a job at the Department of Children’s Services.
Well, that sounded like a perfect job NOT for me, but for my in-the-desert-out-of-work-for-five-years pastor husband who just happens to have a Master’s in Psych, a certificate in Marriage and Family counseling, [...]

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My Daughter Calls Me “Dude”

There is a very bright and wonderful part of my life that doesn’t often make it to these posts. It’s those girls you see above.
The older one has taken to calling me “dude.”  When I suggest this is no name for a mother, she replies that she’s gotten so used to addressing her friends with the [...]

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Prayer, Please?

Howdy, blogofriends:
I really do mean to use this space to ruminate, hopefully in such a way that you, dear readers, are revived and/or roused.
But, today, I seek prayer.
I recently reviewed (to some extent) what feels like our difficult circumstances in my post “The Job, The Interview, and the Cross.”
Well, my husband is interviewing for a [...]

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Ok, Ok… I’ll Be Grateful Already

Isn’t it the case that when you least expect it, some verse of Scripture jumps up and bites you? Like this one:
Do not be anxious about anything [who, me, anxious?!], but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  Philippians 4: 6
Ok, ok. I’ll do it. I’ll pray with thanksgiving [...]

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Delivered: Don’t Forget It!

I must sound like the most bitter hag on the planet, considering my spate of blogs on anger, doubt, frustration with church, etc., etc., etc.
So, I’m going to turn the tables tonight and exercise my thanksgiving muscle.
You know what God said about remembering. To keep from turning into wearisome whiners, those Israelites were supposed to [...]

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In Vitro & Stem Cells: An Unwitting Hypocrisy

I’ve been bothered — agitated — for some time about a very hypocritical situation in the American evangelical church.
A May 9, 2003 New York Times article said:
Fertility clinics in the United States have accumulated some 400,000 frozen human embryos, about twice the number estimated, since 1986 when the in vitro fertilization procedure began, the first official [...]

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Happy Birthday to Me!

Yep. Today’s the day.
I broke my leg, too.
April Fool’s!
About the leg, not the birthday.
I am entering another decade. I refuse to say which, but suffice it to say, I am not happy about having attained this particular year of my life. So I have taken to saying I am xxty-ten, not my actual age.
My daughter [...]

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The Perfect Church, Part 2: Community

Like I said in a previous blog on this subject (The Perfect Church, Part 1: the Sermon), I am writing this post as a consequence of the overwhelming response I got to my post called Why Should I Go to Church? I thought I would write down what for me are features of the perfect church.
In part [...]

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Why Should I Go to Church?

My family left today for spring break. My husband and daughters are travelling miles and miles, over bridges, etc., etc. to Grandmother’s house.
I am staying home to work, sleep (been sick), and generally get caught up in life. After the family drove off, I had just enough time to get ready to go to church. But [...]

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Is Corduroy for Real??

Five year old theology:
Daughter: Mom: Do you know that Corduroy is a made up book? Teddy bears don’t come alive.

Me: Yes, some books are made up stories. But what do you think about the Bible? It says that Jesus rose from the dead. I mean, that’s pretty weird.
Daughter: But that’s true.
Me: How do you know?
Daughter: [...]

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Crap Defined

A friend, having read my blog, Spiritual Formation and Crap , pointed out that she wasn’t sure how it applied to me (or something along that line).  Apparently she wasn’t aware of the more recent bouts of crap in my life.  Perhaps others of you aren’t sure what I meant by crap.
So, I decided to define CRAP:
Circumstances [...]

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The Magnificent Seven (LOL)

Seven things about myself.  An easy thing to blog about, and treyka told me I have to. So here are my sordid seven….
1. I met my husband online 13 years ago. We didn’t mean to. Weren’t looking. At the time, it was a really weird thing to do. So we took to telling people we met in ”an alien [...]

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There Are Angels Hoverin’ ‘Round Me!

Have you ever walked down a street a million times and then, this one time, you see something you never saw before? And it shocked you? You stopped and thought, “How did I ever miss that before?”
I had that experience the other morning. I was reading my daily Bible verses (well, I was catching up on [...]

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There Are Angels Hoverin’ ‘Round Me!

Have you ever walked down a street a million times and then, this one time, you see something you never saw before? And it shocked you? You stopped and thought, “How did I ever miss that before?”
I had that experience the other morning. I was reading my daily Bible verses (well, I was catching up on [...]

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Sinning as I Post (and a Note for Those Among Us Who Are Divorced)

Yesterday, I put up a post about divorce and the purpose of marriage (How Not to Divorce (some thoughts from a Christian perspective)). I think what I said was accurate and some friends (God bless those kind folks) left nice comments.
But I screwed up.
First, I have this idea that no one will read too long a post. Or at least, [...]

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