A young mother with young children lives in a house out in the countryside. Her husband works in the trades, taking their only vehicle,...

Lately, I’ve been trying to figure out what it means to “live seasonally.” Right now, with it being the beginning of autumn, I’m ready to...

What is prayer? Is there a right way to do it? A wrong way? Who am I actually talking to, when I pray? Is that Who listening? Does...

This newsletter is a bit different in that it is purely a prayer request and a way for me to share a vision I have for my local community...

I’m reexamining my relationship with the phrase, “no need to reinvent the wheel”. For pretty much all of my life, I’ve heard that in the...

Do you ever forget to inhale? I have a bad habit of exhaling for extremely long periods. I tend to run, too, toward the end, when I am...

There’s an old woman in China who used to work as a seamstress until, when she was 20 years old, her entire home and workplace burned...

“But flesh; with its soul its blood you shall not eat. However, your blood which belongs to your souls I will demand, of every beast will...

Doe, a deer, a female deer…ate my raspberry plant down to 1/3rd of its original size. At some point before then, other creatures severely...

Last night, a strange storm rolled through our valley here. With smoke from the fire of neighboring states causing a perpetual haze above...

Life is like birth. For a woman who has become a mother through this process, she experiences every hardship of human existence in a...

Lately, I’m relearning (and relearning and relearning) to trust God. There’s a lot floating around in the world these days about...

I remember my mom pausing suddenly to give thanks for the moment. I have images in my head of her just staring into the horizon, a soft...

In preparation for the very first email of the weekly newsletter, I pondered the significance of such an email. "First impressions...