Live With Flair

This morning in church, I begin to think about what a great gift it would be if we extended the following attitudes towards the people

It’s time for Christmas Cookies, and the youngest goes wild with the sprinkles. “Less is more! Less is more!” I cry out. It’s really true,

We wake up to early morning icy rain. The Winterberry Bush and Weeping Cherry look adorned with dangles of diamonds and crystals. All that bleak

If you haven’t seen this one yet, I recommend it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6RlCSSbBXk I love that folks stop and come together for a few moments. Rushing, rushing,

Today I read in Philippians 2:25 Paul reason’s for continuing in ministry even though he just wanted to depart to be with Jesus. He writes,

I’m teaching characterization this week, so we’re talking all about vivid, unique descriptions. We want characters so unique in our writing that they cannot be

This morning on the walk to school, we find that someone–an elf?–has begun to decorate the ignored, forgotten, and miserable little pine tree that grows

This morning, I realize that the Christmas season–more than anything else–is about God who “made himself nothing” and “took on the nature of a servant”

I’m standing in the kitchen listening to the old song, O Come, All Ye Faithful, and I think about how, since the 13th century, worshipers

I find myself talking to a woman who has suffered through chronic pain and fatigue for most of her life. She tells me all the