SONG: All year I’ve been excited for the weekend when we go camping at Worlds End State Park in Pennsylvania. It was this weekend! We stayed in a rustic cabin built in the 1930’s and enjoyed the impossibly starry skies, waterfall views, mountain vistas, fresh air, quiet evenings by the fire and the inexplicable peace of being…
Category: BELIEVE
Scripture and a Song: Jesus Messiah
SONG: The 2016 election for President of the United States is this week. I’ve remained largely silent on the issue online because I don’t want my blog to politicize when it is meant to glorify God. Americans seem to be largely dissatisfied, both with their candidate choices and with the political process itself. Of greater concern…
Scripture and a Song: How Great Thou Art
SONG: I grew up in a Baptist Church where we had a piano, an organ and old-school hymns to offer worship to God. These swelling songs of adoration are embedded in my heart, connecting me to happy memories of my grandparents, who were largely responsible for my spiritual education. They shared Jesus with me and I…
Scripture and a Song: Chain Breaker
SONG: My husband and kiddos are probably weary of my shouting “That’s my jam!” in the car, in the kitchen, or wherever I am when a song I enjoy comes on. The simultaneous beauty and danger of Pandora Radio is that a jam emerges with nearly every song I hear. 🙂 This week I want to…
Scripture and a Song: Overcomer
SONG: Last year, I ran three big races – a 15K, a 10 miler and a half marathon. It was a Big Fat Deal. This is because I had never been interested in exercise until I was 37. At age 41, I had built up enough stamina as a (slow) runner to begin to run…