looking for God to reveal himself
How many times have I asked the Lord to reveal Himself, provide an answer, and I remain near to Him, believing God for His guidance? Yet I sometimes sense silence, or absence, or delay? [...]
How many times have I asked the Lord to reveal Himself, provide an answer, and I remain near to Him, believing God for His guidance? Yet I sometimes sense silence, or absence, or delay? [...]
Their Queen announced victory and peace for the Dutch people and claimed 5 May 1945 as their Victory Day, as papers were signed in Wageningen of a treaty, with Germany’s admitted defeat. Hundreds of [...]
Today is Decision Day and I'm wearing my Hope College t-shirt to encourage my sophomore students to consider a variety of colleges and universities in Colorado, the USA and around the world as they [...]
The brevity of her presence is preeminent. Soon she will scatter, petals dashed in a western wind. She is a bright, delicate beauty, a complicated explosion of colorful passion. Buds cluster together like intimate [...]
{I remember the way the light danced across your eyes in the sunlight and you lifted your face in laughter.} I probably gave you more than if you portioned everything out, measuring as in [...]
One of the difficult tasks I face as an introverted educator has been learning how to navigate cynical, sarcastic, and discourteous verbose people who live in our world. Sometimes these are outrageous, angry, and [...]
Grace felt in short supply today and surely was missing in my interactions with medical insurance, Doctors offices, the DMV, mobile phone company, our bank.... plenty of barbs and jabs and shame from a [...]
Teachers: your students are your best educators. Ask them, then listen. What doesn’t work in curriculum, lesson delivery, content, assessments? Why? Be willing to shift. Or not. I write this to myself as much [...]
In his gospel, John shows that God chose to reveal his glory to us in his humiliation. That is the good, but also disturbing, news. God, in his infinite wisdom, chose to reveal his [...]
Today is another day in Holy Week called Maundy Thursday and this year I’m especially moved by the example of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, and the intensely personal, humane, and gracious gesture that [...]