Category Archives: Humility

Dressing Our Mess

 

“Every time we get dressed we tell the story of the Fall of humanity,” is a statement one of my professors made that has stuck with me (Dr. Glenn Kreider, DTS Fall semester 2011). Because in the Garden of Eden before the Fall, Adam and Eve were naked and … Read More >>

Humble Me…

It’s so contradictory to culture.

Humble yourself and you look weak is what they would have us believe. The reality is that there is power in humility. I know, I struggle with the notion myself! As a gal who seeks justice, I often forget that it’s in humility that I … Read More >>

Insufficient

I bounced a check.

There. It’s out.

I wish I could tell you my insufficient funds were for a twenty thousand dollar super speedy motorboat with a deluxe bathroom on board. Instead I bounced a check for nineteen-dollar school pictures.

The pictures came home with a copy of my … Read More >>

An Epiphany on Epiphany

This Christmas, I studied the Nativity and found myself in the characters:

I was the peasant girl on the fringe,
who wondered: Dare I enter?

I was the breathless shepherd,
brow beaded with sweat from running.

I was the sheep,
bleating in the presence of a newborn King.

I was Mary,
treasuring the moment, with birth pains … Read More >>

We Are Intimately Linked to This Harvest Work

“We are intimately linked in this harvest work. Anyone who accepts what you do, accepts me, the One who sent you. Anyone who accepts what I do accepts my Father, who sent me. Accepting a messenger of God is as good as being God’s messenger. Accepting someone’s help is as

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