• Goldilocks and the Superhabitable

    The other day, I had some time between sessions. So I snagged the Psychology Today magazine that had recently been mailed to me and perused the articles. One article seemed to stop time and enthralled me. Kaja Perina, Psychology Today’s Editor-in-Chief, wrote “In Search of the Goldilocks Moment: Cherishing the life we live now” in her Editor’s Note. This short, seven-paragraph note so completely captured something that has been nudging at my heart and soul…

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  • On the Other Side of Scared

    Ted Lasso Season 4 is in full swing. And I’ve been utterly captivated, just as I was in the first 3 seasons. There is something about this show that makes me walk away enamored with humanity – faults and all. In this most recent episode, one of the female Richmond soccer stars, Gemma, sustains a potentially serious injury. This particularly struck Coach Alice hard. As we get bits and pieces of Coach Alice’s story throughout…

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  • Periphery Joy

    With September in full swing, my family put up our fall stuff recently. Every time a new season comes around, I say it’s my favorite, but there truly is something magical about fall. And I love when the inside of our house transforms with the coziness of fall colors. I have a few pumpkin decorations with candle openings, but since having kids, I’ve chosen to forgo the candles in them for the past few years,…

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  • They Are Leading Now

    Across the Midwest Conference of the ECC, young people are asking significant questions: How has God made me? Where are my gifts needed? What might God be inviting me to do? At the same time, the church is asking questions of its own. Nearly half of active Covenant pastors will reach retirement age within the next decade. Who are the leaders God is raising up? How will we recognize them, encourage them and prepare them?…

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    Brutal Honesty

    In a world where we can edit, filter, and delete so much of who we are in our online presence, I think we tend to carry that same expectation into our everyday realities. When we feel something like jealousy come up, we quickly tuck it away and try to shift to a different emotion or adjust to an entirely different experience. Or we feel discomfort when anger starts to simmer, and we try to ignore…

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