I am journaling through one of my favorite devotionals, Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest, using the “SOAP” format that I learned through an online group that I recently participated in at church. I decided this morning to share some of my journal entries on my blog. Since I am two papers away from…
I think that I know what is best for myself. I think that I know how my life should unfold and I love to tell God how to accomplish my purposes. One of the greatest and best known prayers in the Christian faith says the scariest words of all- “Thy will be done”. I pray…
Tomorrow is the end of my four week experiment of fasting from consumerism. Of all of the spiritual disciplines that I have practiced, this may be the one that has opened my eyes the most. It started out as a desire to submit my financial behavior to God. I was unhappy with the amount of…
I have identified with Charlie Brown in “The Charlie Brown Christmas” since I was a very little girl. The first time I can remember crying at the reading of Scripture was when Linus gets up on that stage and reads from Luke’s gospel. It still slays me every year…… I think the reason I feel…
I just turned in my final summer assignment- a 2500 word exegesis of Ephesians 2:1-10 from the original Greek. At my Seminary, M.Div. students are required to pass three semesters of study in Biblical Greek. My first two Greek courses were taken over seven years ago, when I was a student in another program. At…
Today, in one of my classes, I was asked about whether going to Seminary could cause a person to lose their faith……….Interesting question…… When I first sensed what I now know as a “call to ministry”……I had no idea what was happening to me or why. All that I knew was that a job that…
6:30 am…….wake up time. You would think that I would be annoyed, waking up this early on my vacation, but strangely, it does not bother me at all. I know that I will take a nap later in the day and that I do not need to be particularly conscious for the day’s activities anyway…….The…
The past two weeks have been a challenge to say the least. Last January, My Seminary announced that they would be shutting down the satellite campus that I attend. The campus was not financially feasible and the main Seminary in St. Paul Minnesota decided that the students attending the satellite campuses could finish their…
My husband gets me a card now on Mother’s Day. He gets it but I had to explain to him, a number of years ago, that I needed a card on Mother’s Day……That’s OK. A lot of people don’t understand how to deal with us. I like to call us the silent mothers- those who…
It has been a while since I have written…..I was actually in the middle of a theology series but have decided that I need to write about what is actually going on in my real life. I need to get this out. Once I get things down in words and out of my head…..everything just…
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