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lent liturgy.

Last year was the first time I ever observed Lent, and you may remember that I chose to fast from caffeine (coffee and tea) for the season. It was a meaningful experience, which I wrote about here....

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some reflections on the enneagram.

Today let’s talk about the Enneagram. Why? Because it’s fun! And because, let’s be honest: you need a break from photos of the Gentino family hiking. And also it gives us an excuse to remember those...

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leaders collective marriage retreat.

We’d been home from our road trip just over a week before it was time to pack up and leave for a marriage retreat in Charleston. I’ll be honest: that reentry week after our grand adventure hit hard. I...

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what worked and what didn’t in 2018, part 1.

Hello there, my friends! I hope you’ve recovered from the holidays and are settling into 2019, ready as I am to embrace the comfort of familiar rhythms and routines. This post was a request from my...

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on daily bible reading in 2019.

I’ve been a professing born-again believer for most of my life, and therefore I’ve been reading my Bible for most of my life. I don’t take that for granted, you know. Being raised in a home where...

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what are you feeding yourself?

This winter I read a book called You Who: Why You Matter and How to Deal With It, by Rachel Jankovic. It’s about our identity as Christians and how many of us seem to have lost sight of that identity...

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a time to heal.

When the quarantine started in the middle of March, I was just as bewildered as the rest of the nation. As I was helping my kids process canceled soccer games, birthday parties, and homeschool co-op...

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thanksgiving gratitude.

There are limitless gifts I could thank God for on this rainy, cozy Thanksgiving morning at the end of 2020. Here are five of them. He is purifying and refining His Church. Suffering always exposes...

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sabbatical.

“Too often we try to avoid the scary place where we love so deep, so much, our hearts could break. But without the bitterness, we would never appreciate the sweetness.” Katie Davis Majors   We have...

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the soul that’s wide and deep.

I sit here at my writing desk, laptop open, staring at a blank screen. David has taken three kids to the thrift shop to hunt for Halloween costume accessories, and another kid just wandered outside to...

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