The emotion has not hit me yet. This week, I participated in the final doctoral residency for my Doctor of Ministry program. For the past three years, our doctoral cohort has met in person one week out of the semester, while the rest of our study is online. The residency is filled with dense, but…
My command in this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:12-15 (NIV) As we begin the new year of 2024, we instinctively begin to think of…
From about eight years of age into adulthood, I lived with my mom who didn’t converse much, so I was left alone with my thoughts a lot. I always wondered what it would be like to live in a household with a large family. You would have built-in playmates, and a sister or two with…
I had not laughed that hard in a long time—and I was in school! This past week I was in class with the students in my doctoral cohort. We gather together for one week a semester and it is an intense time of learning, but also presenting. In between, there is a time of connection—and…
There are many things I dislike about COVID but the one thing that stands out is the isolation it creates. This past week we signed up for a gathering of leaders at our church campus. Day of, I began to waffle. I thought, Do I really want to expose myself to that many people who…