Floating
One of my favorite places right now is my “floating chair.” For Mother’s Day my family gave me this lawn chair that is engineered in such a way the chair hangs from a pivot at the top, sheltered by an umbrella. It’s the closest thing to a baby swing anContinue Reading
Leadership bruises
Today I awoke with a bruise on my thumb whose purple color encompasses the entire palm side around to the back. I am almost ashamed to say I’m not sure how a hematoma of this magnitude happened, with its swelling and ugliness. I was doing dishes and must have pinchedContinue Reading
Legacies
On the Friday of camp I did a devotion with the kids that was about legacy. Some of us receive beautiful legacies – like quilts from great grandparents or a musical talent – and some of us receive bad ones – like anger, abandonment, fear, hatred, etc. For my illustrationContinue Reading
Victory
Have you ever had a situation in your life where it seemed there were no easy answers to how to “fix it?” The kind of situation that costs you sleep, causes you to worry, and creates tension in your body? At Friday night’s camp closing program a conflict occurred thatContinue Reading
Gratitude
Sometimes we have to sit still with grateful hearts. Tonight I am just sitting down after a 16 hour day at the end of a very, very busy camp week. Exhaustion is close, clean up is incomplete, children still need to talk to me. Even my dog and cat needContinue Reading
Meaningful
I don’t usually copy whole blogs, but this one was too good to pass up. In Praise of Those Who Work Hard June 16, 2022 by Professor Carol The press abounds in articles about people not wanting to go back to work. Various circumstances come in play, from those abandoning jobs inContinue Reading
Psalm 42 Prayer
Living, Loving God, Our souls cry out in thirst for your Spirit. Your Church is downcast and disturbed by the circumstances we are living through, yet we put our hope in you. It seems the waves and breakers of this era have rolled over us, yet we put our hopeContinue Reading
Unexpected Blessings
One of the realities of running a summer arts day camp is that, no matter how many kids you have, you have to have an adequate number of adults to staff the endeavor. God has graciously provided in ways I couldn’t have anticipated. For instance, there is a lady inContinue Reading
Oppress/Protect
[Day One of camp went great! More on that later.] God of Power and Might, We thank you that no matter our circumstances, you are in control of this world. We know that you hear the cries of the oppressed and that your Church is called to minister to theContinue Reading
Camp
It is ready. Basically. Months of planning, promoting, asking, organizing, building from the ground up and tomorrow – ready or not – it starts. The set up is done, the volunteers are contacted, the name tags and programs are ready, the art projects and music are awaiting their artists, andContinue Reading