I just wanted to take a minute to write about Palm Sunday because I love this day as a kick-off to Easter Holy Week. I finished reading The Robe a couple weeks ago and I keep thinking about it, specifically how the author described Christ returning to the city on Palm Sunday. All those people…
I may as well start calling these “Monday Ponderings” instead of Sunday ones since I tend to be a little late on them. I’m slowly getting my act together around here, but here we are again on a Monday 🙂 I love the new program our church is doing called Come Follow Me. It’s a…
I talked about my most favorite gifts I gave for Christmas, but here is my most favorite gift I received. Dave got me this most beautiful painting from one of my favorite artists: I adore it. It sits by my bed and reminds me that the struggle is worth it. I got to be…
I am writing from Claire’s President’s Day volleyball tournament where she’s reffing for a few games before hers begin. And I figured now would be a good time to share some thoughts that have been rolling around in my brain. Because there are lots of things to ponder about as many things in our church…
This past summer before our reunion I wrote an email to my family detailing the latest things Lucy was struggling with. I asked each of them to explain to their children that Lucy was/is a little extra emotional…I didn’t want them to be caught off-guard by one of her outbursts. Cousins are core and have…
There is this hike in Hawaii that has countless steps. And although I’ve never personally taken that hike, I have wondered about all those steps as I’ve seen them hanging somewhat precariously peeking out from the lush greenery-laden volcanic mountains you can see from the freeway. I’ve thought about how we have so many of…
As I was cleaning out my little office a while back I found this little note scrawled on a bike map from our summer trip to New York: I don’t remember if I was in New York when I wrote that, or if I was cleaning out my backpack and thought of it sitting here…
A couple Sundays ago we had a lesson at church that I loved. We talked about this scripture from Matthew 11:29: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is…
I’ve slacked off on my “Sunday ponderings” lately. Sometimes I hesitate to share personal spiritual things. But for some reason I feel like I really should share this one. So here we go. Last week our whole family was here for church. I got someone to sub for me teaching primary so I could be…