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...
Readings from the Book of Eeyore
Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but of all the characters in literature, Milne’s Eeyore is on my Top Ten list of favorites. Maybe it’s because I know some Eeyores in real life or maybe it’s because I have a small bit of Eeyore in me. Or maybe...
Your teeth are as white as newly shorn sheep. Really.
Flickr photo by Cameron Chamberlain, creative commons When kids begin third grade in my church, our congregation gives each child a Bible, embossed with his/her name. Sarah was so excited to get hers that as soon as she got home, she ran to her bedroom and started...
Cords of Kindness
Flickr photo by DeaPeaJay , creative commons “I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.” Hosea 11:4, NRSV Melissa was a homeless woman, living in a Sunday...
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