The Pattern Within

A young missionary in a church out west, I had my first real job, and my first family away from home. At the tail end of my two year stint, deep in the process of ordination, I was seminary bound. A colt kicking in the stalls, ready to run, I was pregnant with grand ideals about how […]

Loving the People – May 10, 2023

“A moving feeling within me… that I was sitting there demanding a God-given right, and my soul became satisfied that I was right in what I was doing. At the same time there was something deep down within me, moving me… that I could no longer be satisfied or go along with an evil system that […]

The Gift of Being a Person – Nov. 9, 2022

“Both true prayer and love for others are selfless, in that they lead us toward and emerge from a simultaneous death to self and discovery of a new self born of God. Both prayer and service to others reveal to us the tremendous truth that to be a person is to be a gift, and […]