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

So, I just had an “Ah-ha!” moment and I figured I should share it with someone. I’ve always known God has loved me since I was a child. To me, God has always been all-knowing, all-powerful, and somehow all-forgiving. God’s grace is such an amazing thing that, at times, I almost feel as though it is too much, as though God’s grace isn’t right for me, as though I don’t need it.

But I was reading the book Blue Like Jazz and a few lines in it struck me. The author Donald Miller says, “I love to giv… Continue