I drove home through the back roads this morning from a “glampout” at a friends cabin just over the Missouri line. Over train tracks and bridges and even a few gravel roads. Rain clouds were gathering in the west as I sipped coffee from a Casey’s cup, choosing to drive a few miles under the… Continue reading A Decade of Walking
For the second time we followed the call to gather. This year the gathering looked like 87 women, from high school to retirement, from 18 different churches within a 5 county area of southeast Kansas. We are still processing what a miracle these stats reveal. The call to belief in God and living that faith out… Continue reading Real Faith in a Small Town
I just finished A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken. It’s a memoir so extraordinary I can’t help but add it to The Story Place collection. He describes in beautiful prose the three main stories of his life. This is a story of love between a husband and wife that is as deep and true as any… Continue reading A Severe Mercy
“God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.” Psalm 18:24 (The Message) Easter is this weekend. We celebrate the climactic point in our salvation story. Jesus conquered death. He arose victorious and what we do with THAT story, defines who we are. To believe, or not… Continue reading Faith Story Seeds
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