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Many rooms, many seasons

Just read a wonderful piece by Mike Cope about how we experience and express our faith in very different ways: enjoy! Do you ever feel out of place with fellow believers—perhaps like no one “gets” you? It may simply be that you are a “winter believer” while they are “summer believers ” (or vice versa).Continue reading “Many rooms, many seasons”

In Praise of Old Women with Cellulite

I hear them before I see them, their voices rising up in sing-song and echoing off the greenhouse dome that covers the pool at our local YMCA. I can’t tell what they’re singing, only that they sound happy and spry—more like a schoolgirl choir than a pool full of women in their final decades. CrossingContinue reading “In Praise of Old Women with Cellulite”

A miracle baby

Last June, Lon and I had been with our new friend Alicia and a few other neighbors on a river rafting trip. It was the most exhilarating and playful time I’d had in years. Piling giddily into the van to head for home, Alicia checked her messages. There was one from a doctor, supposedly theContinue reading “A miracle baby”

What now?

My dear friend Barbara called me tonight from Santa Fe. She was staying at her mom’s house, looking out at a desert sky full of lightning. She wanted to tell me that she’d found a copy of my first book “Baptism by Fire” in the guest room and she’d just finished rereading it. The firstContinue reading “What now?”