Weekly Devo

We are on the upside now!  December 21 marked the shortest day of the winter.  The darkest day.  On November 2, when we made the monumental (at least for some of us) shift from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time, there were audible moans from many … It’s so dark! It’s dark at 430! I agree with my friends […]

This message will, I expect, arrive in your inbox on Christmas Eve or the day before.  How are you doing in these not-yet-Christmas days?  It can be an overfull season, can’t it?  But not always. Sometimes it can feel not really very full at all.   We can say (and truly believe) we want a more simple season. But […]

I received a gift bag today.  Everything inside was made for me, in someone’s kitchen, not at a store, not at a warehouse bakery, not even at Sluys here in Poulsbo.  Made by hand with carefully selected fresh ingredients and a plan for each piece to work with one another for maximum delight.  Delight for the eye, for […]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1.1 In the beginning … The first church I attended back in 1992 is in Omaha, Nebraska.  The more intimate chapel where the earliest smaller service was held had a beautiful wooden podium. The front of the podium was made of […]

I love how Scripture gives us a reason and purpose, don’t you?  As we’ve been studying Acts we’ve read of how the Lord Jesus prepares His chosen for each next purposeful step.  All steps lead to sharing the gospel message of salvation and hope.  This passage from the Book of Hebrews gives us a great picture of reason […]

I am a woman of comfort.  I want the spaces around me to be comfortable.  I need my shoes to be comfortable.  Entire companies have been hugely successful selling comfort … cozy throws and pillows and sweaters and scarves and slippers.  Like stuffed animals for grown-ups. But there is an internal comfort that is unmatched and it is right […]

It is a hard turn to go from a familiar course and make a radical change.  In my mind the word radical sounds, well, radical!  The dictionary definition says radical means an action that affects the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough. So should we all pursue radical change?  How helpful is it to change something part-way but not fully?  Or […]

My local grocery store has security guards.  Maybe they’ve always been there but now they are uniformed and obvious and I don’t mind a bit. I recently spent some time in a few airports where I felt entirely safe, in part because there was an obvious security presence. Then I wandered a bit through downtown Seattle […]