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Meals as Enacted Community: A Meal with Jesus

This month over at Grace Table we are doing an online book club of one of my favorite books. A Meal with Jesus by Tim Chester. In Tim Chester’s book, A Meal with Jesus, from chapter two “Meals as Enacted Community,” we are brought to Luke 7:40-50. Simon the Pharisee invites Jesus into his homeContinue reading “Meals as Enacted Community: A Meal with Jesus”

My Reflections for My Brother’s Memorial

I wanted to share with you what I wrote, and spoke at my older brother’s Memorial in September. I think of him often with some days being harder than others. I didn’t expect to get choked up on Mother’s Day in church; but, I did and that’s how grief rolls in. Thank you for journeyingContinue reading “My Reflections for My Brother’s Memorial”

When Your Sink is Your Ministry

For years I have never had much natural light streaming into my kitchen. It’s been a dream of mine to be able to wash dishes and look out a window. It’s 4:30 and I’m busily fixing conflicts, helping calm down “all the feelings” children, while madly trying to get dinner on the table byContinue reading “When Your Sink is Your Ministry”

Family Dinner Table & Kale Sweet Potato Salad

When I saw the warm light emanate through the windows of those homes in the Spring of 1998, I almost walked up to one of them to ask if I could live with them. I imagined a plate of chocolate chip cookies, comfy throw blankets within reach and a generous embrace from the residents inside awaitingContinue reading “Family Dinner Table & Kale Sweet Potato Salad”

Fellowship Around the Table

At the close of the sermon today we were invited to quickly rewrite our version of Acts 2:42-47. Here was mine. You mama teach your babes how to use words, how to say sorry when you shouted. The Spirit of God comes while messy floors, tear stained cheeks turn to you and forgiveness isContinue reading “Fellowship Around the Table”

Six Months and I Still Hear Your Voice

Cool evenings Front yard green, slide tackling soccer. You promised you wouldn’t cheat…you couldn’t resist a win. Andrew slipping Monopoly money beneath the table with your grin thinking he only gave you an advantage. Your grin of satisfaction turned to annoyance as he favored me as well. Sitting in our Camry onContinue reading “Six Months and I Still Hear Your Voice”

Whole 30 Approved Kale, Apple, & Carrot Salad with Creamy Cashew Dressing

Two fried eggs served alongside buttered toast with their drippy yolks. Just enough salt and pepper atop inviting me for another taste. My first meal after returning home from the hospital with my firstborn. Bean and bacon soup with far too much sodium gingerly biting down. Sitting in my bed watching tv, and being nursedContinue reading “Whole 30 Approved Kale, Apple, & Carrot Salad with Creamy Cashew Dressing”

How the Seattle Seahawks Encourage My Parenting

Sundays in these parts let off a glow of the television as Papa watches his team, and invites his family of girls to join in on the festivities. He talks about his love affair with Seahawks through thick and thin, notably the thin times as a teenager into his 20s. In the early years of marriage,Continue reading “How the Seattle Seahawks Encourage My Parenting”

Bringing Back 80s Birthday Parties

My sweet V had her eighth birthday this month. She had been speaking of a Mickey Mouse birthday party for well over five months. One of her ideas included a Mickey Mouse birthday cake. I already knew I was not going to buy a “use only once $30 cake pan.” Instead, I would be creating my own copyContinue reading “Bringing Back 80s Birthday Parties”

My Table’s Prayer (Grace Table)

I stare from across the table wondering when dinner will be done just to clean up the mess. “Use your napkin..and your fork too! Manners please! We chew with our mouths closed. Oh no, I’ll get it. Preese, Preesy, PREESY, we are eating dinner, would you like to eat dinner with the family or goContinue reading “My Table’s Prayer (Grace Table)”