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? [...]
5 May 1945: Dutch Liberation!
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 [...]
Decision Day
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 [...]
Look skyward
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 [...]
the way the light danced across your eyes
{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 [...]
Listening with authenticity
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 [...]
Maybe grace is quiet today
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 [...]
Students are the best teachers
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 [...]
The glory of the resurrection
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 [...]
Washing of feet
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 [...]