I love my baby. I love holding her, playing with her, talking to her, bathing her. I am one of those moms who simply cannot get enough of her little one. With that said, when someone asks to hold her and I pass her into the arms of another, there is that moment where I… Continue reading my burden is light
Category: Faith
The gospel according to Los Angeles
During a recent lecture in my Early Church History class, our professor was discussing Epicurus and his understanding of reality. According to Epicurus, life happens when a bunch of atoms bump into each other and stick together, and eventually become a complex enough clump to somehow produce life. Death is inevitable, and when it happens,… Continue reading The gospel according to Los Angeles
Requiem
“May the angels lead you into paradise: may the martyrs receive you at your coming, and lead you into the holy city, Jerusalem. May the choir of angels receive you, and with Lazarus, who once was poor, may you have everlasting rest.”
faith
Last night I took out the trash from our kitchen (something I do much more often now that diapers have entered the scene). It was dark and as you walk out our back door, you have to go down the two flights of stairs to get to the driveway where the trash cans are tucked… Continue reading faith
the sacrifice of praise
“Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them to your foreheads.†Deuteronomy 11:18 I went into H and R Block last night with much fear and trembling. We had a lot of anxiety about our taxes and our prognosis was not good. After… Continue reading the sacrifice of praise
How do you do it?
I had an interesting conversation the other night about boundaries—in relationships and in life in general. I am pretty sure that I am not a person that has a very mature understanding of what it means to operate with a lot of boundaries with people. Today my husband had taken a day off from his… Continue reading How do you do it?
Sisters
Last night I drove to LAX to pick up an old friend, AB. She is here in L.A. for her spring break of her final year in college in the Midwest. AB and I have a pretty special history together. In college, I was the coordinator for a big sister/big brother program in the inner… Continue reading Sisters
and on the seventh day…
Tonight our pastor showed up at the park rec center where our Spanish language bible study meets to worship on Saturday nights. He was greeted by a few hundred members of the Bloods street gang who had gathered at our park after the funeral of one of their own. He made his way into the… Continue reading and on the seventh day…