My lesson plans are filled with reflection activities as I try to guide my almost middle schoolers to think about what they have learned over the course of their elementary year. We are asking questions like, “What did you learn that you will always remember? What advice do you have for the rising 5th graders? …
It was superhero day, which I had forgotten until the notification dinged on my phone. I dashed to our nine-year-old’s closet to see what I could find for three of us to wear to show our support for the school spirit day. As I rifled through the closet, I found the superhero cape I had …
Our kitchen was in full-swing this morning as we prepared pickles and pound cake to celebrate this holy weekend. Because this is a time to celebrate. We have almost made it through the long forty days as we have followed Jesus’ life and ministry. We have wondered what it meant for this teacher to be …
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This is the moment we have been waiting for. It’s the moment throughout the gospel of Luke that we have heard about. Jesus has been predicting this death and his betrayal since right after he fed the five thousand. He knew where his journey would lead even though his disciples didn’t understand what he was …
We now watched three seasons pass in our new home in our new-ish city. It is strange to think that you could know a place so well and then come back home only to realize how much it has changed…or maybe it’s how much you have changed? It has been so fun to watch our …
As we have settled into my hometown and the city where we met and fell in love, there have been waves of nostalgia and deja vu. These reminders that life loops back around were at first overwhelming having been taught by our culture that life is a hierarchy; a pursuit of climbing a ladder to …
Each year, I end the year reflecting on the word or phrase that has followed me throughout the year. I know this is backwards in some ways. Most people choose a word or mantra for the new year, but that’s never how it’s worked for me. Instead, as I move through the year, so too …
One of my favorite albums to listen to at Christmas is Carrie Underwood’s. The first track is called “Let There Be Peace,” and it’s always brought me back to center in the midst of the holidays because it reminds me that there are so many who aren’t at peace. During the holidays that is true …
Advent is a season of waiting and preparing. For those of us who celebrate, we find comfort in the predictable pattern of lighting the candles of hope, peace, joy, and love knowing that Christ will come again, but for those characters in the story there was so much waiting and preparing not knowing what would …
