I used to believe that I couldn't be loved. I believed in the concept that Jesus loved me, but I could also lose that love. You see, I...

I have always been a positive person. I don’t know why. I just always have. I guess it is a personality trait. It never felt like it was...

I’ve never been one to practice self compassion. I live and die by the belief of kindness towards others, but the idea of holding myself...

“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” Jon Kabart-Zinn Over the years I have done a lot of driving to...

Serve to Discover Abundance The Radical Shift from “me to we.” St. Luke’s takes seriously the tag-line, “The Good Neighbor Church.” We...

Sometimes, the hardest thing in the world is to take some deep breaths and realize that our next breath in is a gift from God. We get so...

She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. Proverbs 31:17 I have a bit of a workout addiction. I love...

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone...

"I'm a little pencil in the hands of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world." ~Mother Theresa God has given us all a...

In helping Middleton recover from the 2018 flood, the first thing I learned is that everything is connected. Things that had been...

“Healer of Our Every Ill” by Marty Haugen (GIA Publications, 1987) gained a following with ELCA Lutherans in With One Voice (1995) and in...