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Reaching. Healing. Renewing.  Who doesn’t want more of these verbs in their life?  That’s the heart and hope behind Ministry of Reconciliation and I can certainly attest to its life-giving characteristics.  Ministry of Reconciliation (MOR) was birthed out of Friendship Church and has since turned into a stand alone ministry just down the road from…

As I was pouring myself a cup of iced afternoon coffee, my five-year-old daughter approached me with a smirk and said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if a pig sang a song and all he did was oink?” She’d painted a silly picture, and I couldn’t help but hear a pig oinking to the tune of…

I opened my calendar a few weeks ago to schedule a game night with friends and thought to myself, “When did things get so busy?!”  Somehow without my knowing, every weekend for the next month had something going on.  Have you ever had this happen to you?  You keep putting one thing after the other…

I have a distinct memory of being in church one Mother’s Day, and the speaker inviting every woman to take a flower as she left the auditorium. A “happy-mother’s-day-flower.” Honestly, the notion confused me. Wasn’t today just about the mothers? Weren’t we supposed to make them feel special, let them stand out? I was a…

I’ve been attempting to write this particular post for over four weeks. For some reason I’ve been exceptionally stuck. Between my late-night brainstorming sessions that ultimately amounted to nothing, and early mornings spent staring at a blank page, I’ve caught myself on several occasions growing outright frantic to develop an idea that I felt could…