Practicing Trust
Unlike most of her friends, my mother never spoke with regret about what she’d left behind. When I asked if she’d like to drive by the family house one last time, she declined. She chose just enough furniture to make her independent living apartment homey but not crowded. And when she moved into one room […]
Grace on the Way
Do you ever find it hard to be in relationship with someone different from you? I see people so easily doing this, and I also see people who won’t even consider it. I find myself somewhere in between. I am often distressed by my inability to wholeheartedly live as Christ in my own family, church, […]
Faithful Presence
In Matthew 28:16–20, the resurrected Jesus gathers his disciples on a mountain in Galilee.* This final commissioning begins not with certainty but with ambiguity: “When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.” Even here, at the threshold of resurrection life, doubt remains present alongside devotion. This intertwining of doubt and commitment feels deeply […]
Peace and Pentecost
When Jesus speaks of leaving his peace* with the disciples, he is talking about something much deeper than the absence of violence. Throughout his ministry, he demonstrates that peace is about wholeness, about healing the brokenness that results in the physical, mental, and spiritual illness of individuals; and for mending the brokenness that comes between […]