I have been taught that you do not build faith on experience. I have been taught that God is going to clean your soul so that it is pure and righteous for His purpose. I have learned not to stress over the small things. I have learned that God will never let me down. That I do not know God's plans, nor do I have His wisdom. Recently I have been going through some sort of cleaning, a spiritual cleaning. I can honestly say that it is rather painful. I am being given circumstances that is testing e… Continue

A poem, by me.

God is at My Lake Today

God’s at my lake today!
My lake is one of those lakes that
Are high in the mountains – you
Know, the kind that are dark and clear and
Are surrounded by verdant green
Peaks and blue sky and sun and clouds
And a cool breeze.
It’s a deep
Lake, calm with a few waves
With plenty of space to canoe or
To sailboat around.
Let’s sail around – it’s so easy
That you can steer with your feet!
Look at that – so much
Freedom and vastness, enveloped in
Blueness a… Continue

Rabbi Harold Kushner says this about religion in his book Who Needs God "Religion is not primarily a set of beliefs, a collection of prayers or a series of rituals. Religion is first and foremost a way of seeing. It can't change the facts about the world we live in, but it can change the way we see those facts, and that in itself can often make a difference."

How does your faith effect your seeing? Knowing God and being known by God impacts the way we see the world and the way that we in… Continue

Preface: This gets sermon-like...it's just how my heart responded.

In Response to the Women’s Theological Conference
January 24, 2009 & January 30, 2009

The Transformative Lutheran Theologies Conference on Womenist, Feminist, and Mujerista Lutheran Perspectives in Chicago last weekend was overwhelming. I had no idea what to expect, but it was definitely more than whatever I thought I was getting myself into. It was advocacy, justice, paradigmatic theology, process theology, network, interg… Continue