I love the next thing. I love beginnings. I’m simply wired for them. But as we close out 2022, I’m thinking about endings. We just finished moving out of our house in Big Cove that we’d lived in for 16 years. It’s kind of surreal and not a little sad. But...
Re. That’s it. That’s my word for 2022. No, not the musical note. And no, not the abbreviated version of regarding. Just Re. It means “once more, afresh, anew.” In short, again. There’s a lot to this little word. I couldn’t settle in on just one of the possible...
What a year, right? For me, it’s been going out with a bang…literally. Lots of banging actually. I spent Christmas Eve eve under an MRI machine having brain scans done. I’d had (what I thought was) a severe sinus headache for about 10 days, but it wasn’t getting...
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:18-19, NIV) I went to the wilderness this past weekend with a few...
The Word for the Week this week comes from my friend Shadia Hrichi. It’s an important take on trials and temptations “Don’t give the devil so much credit.” I do not remember the exact details that prompted my friend to say such a thing, but I do recall being a...
