Fearless? The Mop Bucket and Prayers for Prayers
“Kids are just fearless,” he said a few years ago, shaking his head at how beautifully and bravely our team of fifth graders had led us in litanies and prayers and scripture reading on Children’s Sabbath. I knew what my friend was getting at, that it takes a lot of...
The Boss of the Cornfield
Flickr photo by Bulsti, creative commons If it’d been up to her, I’m sure Janice would never have hired me. She needed a girl with arm muscles, someone tough enough to tramp through cornfields in the blazing summer heat, to dig holes eighteen inches deep with only a...
The Joy of Aaron’s Oily Hair
Flickr photo by spapax, creative commons Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed to find myself in ever-enlarging, ever-linking and merging circles of the family of God, that I’m afraid to speak for the blubbering tears that might come out. So Friday night, as I grabbed...
Getting Miss Minnie’s Mail
Flickr photo by creativity + Timothy K Hamilton, creative commons Before I even opened her chain link gate, I could see a wheel chair pulled up to her screen door. A wheel chair? Miss Minnie started using a walker a couple of years ago, and in the last few months...
Baptizing Dishes and Other Weird Ways to Pray
Flickr photo by seizethedave, creative commons I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I’m really bad at prayer. Whether I try to pray as I pull up the covers at the end of the day or give it another go after morning coffee has jolted me into speed mode, mere...
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