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To Play Like a Child Again
I am in a season of anticipation: trying to rest, learning to listen, and waiting on God. Right now I’m feeling like a mass of dots aching to be connected by a smarter crayon. But today it was nice to take an hour long road trip with my Mama to the Trader Joe’s in Old […]
March 1, 2007
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One Englishman’s View of America
Brian Heasley is the infamous 24-7 Prayer man in Ibiza. I appreciate how honestly and hilariously he blogs about following Jesus in Europe. He’s originally from the UK, but now he walks out a life of prayer, community, and creative mission in Europe’s wildest party isle. You can read about 24-7 Prayer Ibiza here. Brian […]
February 27, 2007
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One to Love Unconditionally
Shortly after writing my last post, I turned on my online Pandora Radio and Death Cab’s “Debate Exposes Doubt” came on. I think it’s one more snapshot of a generation starved for relationship, and hungry for a taste of the unconditional love of the Father. I was in the corner booth thinking (pretending to read) […]
February 26, 2007
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What the Church Can Learn from MTV
Late last night I watched MTV’s Juvies with my Mama. I should have been studying, but I was drawn into this new unscripted series on adolescents in trouble. Juvies began airing in January, and is part of MTV’s “Think” campaign which deals with issues of discrimination, education, the environment, and sexual health. Last night’s show […]
February 26, 2007
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Frozen Maryland, She Welcomes Me
Before I walked through security at LAX this morning, I paused out in the sunshine and just sort of smiled into it for a few awkward moments. I’d heard rumors of icy stuff in Baltimore, but tried to forget it for one more warm California ray. Maryland has welcomed me with her freezing open arms, […]
February 25, 2007
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Kiss My Brain
My brain needs a smooch. Or a synapse-massage, perhaps. I’m still in Pasadena finishing up the last three days of a two week intensive at Fuller. And I’m knee-deep in excellent books for the two courses I’m working on this quarter: Ministering to Street Kids and Contemporary Culture in Missiological Perspective (a.k.a. “Our culture is […]
February 22, 2007
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“I Don’t Believe in Love”
“I don’t believe in love. I believe in God. Because He is bigger.” -Cristina Ionescu, a street-dwelling teenager in Romania I spent a significant part of this V-Day in class watching a documentary called, Children Underground. It was both beautiful and terrible. It presents the gritty lives of five Romanian street-dwelling children, and their fight […]
February 15, 2007
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Full at Fuller
I am sitting on a comfy leather chair in Fuller’s Kreyssler’s Hall. K. Hall is Fuller’s Student Center where folk come to chat/study/nap. It reminds me of the colonial houses in Charles County, where I grew up. Inside there’s loads of these comfy leather chairs and free internet. Outside there is a vicious game of […]
February 13, 2007
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Makin’ a List, Checkin’ it Twice
I get in these funny moods when I’m sure that if I don’t list out the little details of my life at the moment, then I will most assuredly turn into a crazy lady. The brilliant irony of it all is that I don’t necessarily have to cross-out or even do things on the list. […]
February 12, 2007
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Grocery Listing
Greetings from defunct blogdom and from Pasadena*, California, home of the original Trader Joe’s**! I am mad about this grocery store. It’s fresh, organic, cheap, and witty. And they have free samples! I love free samples! And it’s not so monstrous a store that I need a map to find my way around. I miss […]
February 12, 2007
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[Extra]Ordinary Stairs
I have a great deal to report, especially after a weekend of 24-7 prayer with the teens/pre-teens at my church. Tomorrow I will try to post some pictures from our wild little adolescent prayer room. But for now I’d like to turn to Zechariah, and to a vivid dream I had yesterday about stairs, worship, […]
January 30, 2007
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Soy Scum Meditations
I like hot soy milk. With cinnamon and nutmeg, please. I call it “Christmas in a Cup.” Tonight I put the soy milk on the stove, and then forgot about it. I came back to soy scum. Lots of it. As I cleaned out the pan and made shriveled-faces at it, I laughed to myself, […]
January 26, 2007
