In her idea-spurring book, Make a List, Marilyn McEntyre describes list-making as a spiritual exercise. She describes how the making of lists can shape, form, and reveal us - while she also shares a number of her own as examples and food for thought. One of them, "What marriage teaches us," includes these ideas: There’s…
gratitude with grit
As you sat around the Thanksgiving dinner table recently, and someone offered you something you didn’t want on your plate, what did you say? No thank you. You declined, and your polite "no" was enough - unless Uncle Ned was really insistent that you try his brussel sprout & lima bean surprise. If only "No,…
Silent Saturday
Yesterday was the day that changed all days, for the resurrection of Jesus is the hinge point of history. The empty tomb upended the vice grip of sin and death, and its ultimate claim on our lives. And so, yesterday, we celebrated. Where Friday was a day of sorrow, grief, & darkness at the cross,…
Gulping Grace 