

Lent 2025 Day 23: Losing, Loving, and Letting Go
“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful it’s ordinary and mundane...


Lent 2025 Day 19: Surrender, Uncertainty & Seeking Peace
“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.” – Isaiah 26:3 They say, “When you make...


Lent 2025 Day 18: The Cost of Cruelty & The Weight of Shame
“When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you...


Lent 2025 Day 17: Letting Go, Trusting the Journey
Philippians 3:13-14 – “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to...


Lent 2025: Third Sunday of Lent
It’s time for the annual spring cleaning. I like to think of it as a metaphorical cleansing of the soul. It reminds me of a scene from...


Lent 2025 Day 16: The Art of Compliments & The Weight of Words
Proverbs 16:24 – “Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. My friends love giving me dating advice...


Lent 2025 Day 15: Faith, Justice, and Letting Go
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” – Psalm 34:18 I am a deeply spiritual person. Working...


Lent 2025 Day 14: A Prayer for Change & Connection
I used to be engaged to a minister. We were together for seven years before we Consciously Uncoupled. The words we chose were, “We were...


Lent 2025 Day 13: Holding Onto Friendship, Justice, and Hope
“Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.” – Isaiah 1:17...


Lent 2025 Day 12: Finding Peace in Solitude & the Memories That Shape Us
Ecclesiastes 3:1 – “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” During the pandemic, I spent more...