Magically Delicious! Imagination in Faith
“YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT!” she said as she climbed over my purse and into her car seat at carpool line. “Leprechauns are MESSY! You won’t believe what they did to our room while we were on the playground!” “Really?” I said, and my four year old took over, chattering all...
Wild Sometimes
When you were little, what kind of person did you think God expected you to be? I wish I had shared the outlook of a little boy I know. We recently celebrated the story of Jesus’s baptism, and when the teacher asked, “I wonder where you are in the story- I wonder what...
Lugging Rocks
© 2010 Marufish, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Everybody wants to carry the rock. You too? So far it’s happened every Sunday since Lent started. I collect the acolytes as usual fifteen minutes early from Sunday school so that we can get our robes on and practice the...
Tears and Lilies
Do you know these flowers? The French call them muguets and we call them Lilies of the Valley, but today I prefer a less common name, Mary’s Tears. The legend says that they sprang from Mary’s weeping during the crucifixion. I like to imagine that. If flowers could...
Be Careful and Other Magic Words
© 2006 Linus Bohman, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio You know what happens when your children grow up and move back home because you live less than two minutes from where they go to graduate school? They start doing annoying things, like trying to break you of bad habits....
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