Extra-Ordinary Love
On this Feast of the Epiphany, a day marked by an exceptional act of adoration, I wonder how we mark our ordinary days together? What are our everyday habits? What lengths do we go to honor the ordinary goodness in our lives?
Liturgical Year
Marking Milestones on Feast of the Holy Name
We mark today as a new beginning. We have left 2023 and are launching into 2024, likely with an abundance of intentions, feelings, and hopefully… hope.
God’s Instrument of Abundant Life
When looking at a baby, we don’t generally wonder how they will die.
Beautiful Blue Christmas
I have long loved Darryl Worley’s song ‘Awful Beautiful Life’ that’s linked above. It came out around the time I graduated from college and it reminds me that life is crazy, tragic, and magic.
The Time it Takes: Trusting with Saint Thomas
It takes the time it takes, I heard the speaker say.
The Jesse Tree’s Continuous Lessons
Hearing my first Christmas carol of the season, ‘What Child is this?’ over the intercom in a store made me stop in my tracks a few weeks ago. And Godly Play trained, I began to wonder, ‘How did this religious song gain access into this secular setting!?’
Beyond Day and Night
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Bird Treacy’s substack Wiggles & Wonder on November 14th and is shared today
Slowing Down for Advent with Young Children
The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, in our modern world, are a source of delighted excitement, building anxiety, and abject stress for so many families.
Slowing Down during the Advent Season
This year, I want to slow down and savor the Advent season.
Looking ahead to Advent
Now that my kids are in 7th and 9th grades, I’m trying to be realistic about how we will slow down and engage Advent as a family because we have a lot less time in the afternoon and evenings than we did a decade ago.