Like everything else during coronatide, Thanksgiving is a day filled with tough choices.
Prayer Pumpkins
Some days it’s hard for me to think about the last 24 months or so. I have gone from being an 18-month plan-ahead kind of person to a taking-it-one-day-at-a- time kind of person.
I’m Sorry, Thank You, and the Mystery of Grace
Every email to my children’s teachers the first three weeks of quarantine began with an apology.
Giving thanks is no small thing. It requires a conversion of heart.
We want to give our children the world! So often what we end up giving them is continued complicity in the world’s model of desire and scarcity. Our faith teaches something better.
Cooked with Love: A Legacy of Thanksgiving Traditions
Mom cooked a huge Thanksgiving meal each year – and I never got why. Until, that is, we had to celebrate Thanksgiving without her.
Practicing thankfulness and forgiveness with teens
How do you teach your kids and teens to be thankful? How do you practice forgiveness? I’ve find practicing forgiveness and thankfulness much like choir or cello practice. It takes a lot of work, and the work never seems to end. And I don’t just mean for our kids.