"Honor the body that is you. Honor the body that God made. Honor the body that carried you here tonight, and will carry you home when the time is right."

"Honor the body that is you. Honor the body that God made. Honor the body that carried you here tonight, and will carry you home when the time is right."

From the prayer wall on Sunday.

Honoring suffering and speaking benediction -- the dual disciplines that tell both truths about lived human experience. 1. It is truly awful. 2. It will (probably) be okay. 

On prayer, and the spiritual practice of getting lost. "Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place!" Sometimes that's all you need: the recognition that God is here, too. Look around. Say hello.

Katie, Haiti. January 1988.

1988, St. Louis du Nord, Haiti. Medical team and translators.

Rivers swollen by typhoon flooding. 

On prayer, and the spiritual practice of getting lost. "Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place!" Sometimes that's all you need: the recognition that God is here, too. Look around. Say hello.

Katie, Haiti. January 1988.

1988, St. Louis du Nord, Haiti. Medical team and translators.

Rivers swollen by typhoon flooding. 

You are too tired to change the world. That's just the way Pharaoh likes it. Get some sleep! God likes God's people to be well-rested so we can repair the breach, restore the streets, ride on the heights of the earth! 

Sarah is too tired to change the world. 

Jenny and her mom.

Grasshopper Jenny muses on the “Quotidian Mysteries” — the idea that God can be found in the smallest, most ordinary tasks of daily life. As a mom, grandmom, and caregiver to her parents, she would know.

That's Jay, in the classy hat, on the right. Tarrant County Pride Parade 2016.

Jay the Intern, formerly known as Jay the Actuary, has some things to say about widows who press their claims... and who, in the end, sits down at Jesus’s table. Dang it, Jay!

That's Jay, in the classy hat, on the right. Tarrant County Pride Parade 2016.

Jay the Intern, formerly known as Jay the Actuary, has some things to say about widows who press their claims... and who, in the end, sits down at Jesus’s table. Dang it, Jay!

Jenny and her mom.

Grasshopper Jenny muses on the “Quotidian Mysteries” — the idea that God can be found in the smallest, most ordinary tasks of daily life. As a mom, grandmom, and caregiver to her parents, she would know.