• hourglass

    Time

    I’m reading Beautiful Chaos by Jessica Urlichs, and her poem “I Would Tell Her” is about things she would tell herself in her early days of motherhood. What struck me most about this poem is how it ends. Urlichs says: Only I won’t tell her these things, because she will forget, like we all do, so that we can discover them for ourselves, as we’re meant to Reading this book coincided with one of the…

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  • the churei to at the arakurayama sengen park

    God Still Sends 

    What does it look like to say yes to God?  Sometimes it means crossing the street.  Sometimes it means crossing an ocean.  This summer at Gather, the Evangelical Covenant Church commissioned Reagan Smith as Serve Globally personnel to Japan. While her destination is on the other side of the world, her story began much closer to home – at First Covenant Church in Salina, Kan.  Reagan traces her calling back to a youth mission trip when she…

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  • Sacred Space for Next Generation of Campers

    This summer marked a significant milestone for Twin Lakes Bible Camp in Manson, Iowa as campers gathered for the very first chapel service in the new Lakeview Chapel on June 22. Just two weeks later, on July 4, friends of the camp celebrated with an open house, giving many their first opportunity to step inside this beautiful new space.  For more than 70 years, Twin Lakes has helped young people encounter Jesus through worship, biblical teaching, prayer, and fellowship. Lakeview Chapel…

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  • sunbeams over post on shore

    Connected

    I’m reading The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry. It is a teen fiction book, and in the beginning, I encountered a quote that has really resonated with me” “God is a thing I think I see in glimmers all over: an enormous and vague warmth I sometimes catch pulsing around me, giving me shivers and making tears prick my eyes; a mysterious and limitless Thing threaded through all the world and refusing…

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  • tranquil blue sky and ocean horizon view

    Limitless

    Reading provides an escape for me that few things match. Through the never ending learning I can engage in through a variety of nonfiction works out there, to the astonishing stories and worlds authors create through their fiction stories, and, in the most rare but spectacular occurrences, there are nonfiction works I’ve read that have taken me on a journey I narrowly assume to be only found in fiction works, like with Robin Wall Kimmerer…

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