Forgiven Forever For Everything!

Some things pass through our minds, some stay. I don't remember the story I was told, but I do remember that somewhere in it, the main character was told to "try thanksgiving." I was in my early teens, of that I'm sure, because the storyteller was a great-aunt nun who managed a dorm that I lived in when I was 12-13.

I've done my best to make that true for myself, that I would always be grateful. Last November, I met Dr. Noah McKay at the launching of his book, Wellness at Warp Speed. One of the… Continue

I don't mind admitting I'm 40. I know I don't look it (older? bwahahahaha!!), and I certainly don't know how it's supposed to feel like. I still have my childhood preferences for cartoons and mystery books, and I'm around people who make me feel young: either because they're older than me, or because they don't believe I really am that much older!

Then we start talking songs, and they believe.

I have been sadly out of touch with the latest in the recording industry since I gave birth to my twi… Continue

It's been a question for the past four and a half years that I have been struggling with, and the answers come, slowly. The latest installment was a rebuke. a scolding for trying to get things over with, instead of doing the right thing. The lawful thing.

This time, I get it. The best way to help is to not help --- to not save the other from the consequences of his decisions, to stop covering up for him. Although done with frustrated resignation, I realize now that the best thing I did was to s… Continue

The week of September 28 to October 3 was a memorable one.

It started with a text, then a chat. A text asking if my husband and I would be willing to lead worship on Gospel Jam for the last Sunday of September. We said yes.

We'd started to be a team in 1996. A pianist, Irl was the hired keyboardist of the church we were in then. He asked me to join the team as a back-up singer. Because of my background as a voice major and a former singing member of Windsong, I eventually ended up as worship l… Continue