Category: Musings

  • March 15, 2015
    Every year at Lent I pray about what I need to do, not do, give up or take on.  Of…

  • February 23, 2015
    I listened with great sadness to last week’s news about the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS in Libya. …

  • January 15, 2015
    As I watched the wise men head for home in my imaginative musings, I was left with a handful of…

  • January 13, 2015
    Have you ever faced a situation where you had been rehearsing what you would say, only to find that when…

  • January 12, 2015
    The landscape deepened into tones of gray as the wise men on their camels, their entourage in their midst, lumbered…

  • January 9, 2015
    “Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews?  For we have seen his star as it…

  • January 8, 2015
    I’m talking about those foreign dignitaries who visited the child Jesus in Bethlehem – the story of Epiphany – as…

  • September 30, 2014
    Have you ever read the book of Leviticus?  All those “offerings” (burnt offering, sin offering, trespass offering, etc.) sound bloody…

  • May 13, 2014
    One of my favorite authors died last month.  Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian-born journalist and author.  My introduction to…

  • March 14, 2014
    Who am I?  First off, I am a wife and a mother—those are extremely important roles to me.  I am…