Category: Christianity
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Called to Feed (Feb 2013)
(Originally posted February 2013) I wish that you could be in my head today as I read for class….. There is this thing I do, I cannot help myself. When I do not do it, it is all I crave. It consumes me in a passionate and unforgiving way and…
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Two Years Down (Aug 2013)
(Written August 2013) I can hardly believe I am writing this. It really does feel like yesterday that I was freaked out about learning Koine Greek. Now I not only have that under my belt but Hebrew too. I am finally starting to feel like a seminarian and I am…
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The sacrifice you cannot see (and thoughts with M.L.E.) (from August 2013)
In her books, Madeleine L’Engle often speaks of that which we cannot see with the naked eye. Things that are amazing to behold and stunning in their purpose and presence. We take them for granted and forget how they impact our lives. When speaking of faith, someone once said that…
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Seminary Updates and why I haven’t written in a year (September 2014)
Originally posted Sep 2014 This past year has been overfull. So overfull that my poor heart and mind just needed to be ‘in’ it. Sometimes that overfulness looked like an empty calendar and time spent with just my family. It was wonderful and scary and full of noise and laughter…
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There is always enough Jan 2015
Originally posted Jan 2015 Lately a concern seems to stick near the top of my mind and heart but I was unable to voice it until now. I am getting ready to do hospital chaplaincy (CPE) and then will go straight into internship. This means my time at home, caring…
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Why I blog
I have been asked before why I blog, but the answer was never as clear as what I heard in a class on Job today; “Sometimes we just need to speak and for just one other person to hear.” That is why I blog, to put my small, lone voice…
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the dream of a garden memorial
I dreamt that I walked in soft green grass,the whisper of wind in the trees.The flowers all nodded their sweet helloas they welcomed the buzzing of bees. I dreamt of a tree whose leaves unfurledand gathered my sorrow withinAnd took it from me and gave me insteadpeace and innocent comfort…
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Waiting… hoping…
Grief. Death. Loss. They do funny things. Twisted things. I sit here with my grief in my lap,rocking it. I do not want to hold it,I want to let it go. But if I let it go, will I have let them go too? It feels like this,this bit of…
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One more post seems impossible
I am supposed to write one more blog post for my class project. Somehow though, as I sat here taking a break and surfing my facebook community I learned a close friend lost her battle with cancer today. My heart is broken. I want to hit this screen and yet-…
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A gift to me, for me, this year
In our Luther Seminary portfolios, we are asked by professor Mary Hess to include competencies. These fall into three categories, knowledge, attitude and skill. In my second semester, under knowledge competency 1B, which is“Familiar with basic faith nurture and learning theories: faith development over the life cycle, multiple intelligences, constructivist…
Mistress of Divinity 