Last year, I totaled my car. After the smoke from the airbags cleared and kind bystanders helped me out of the mess, my smart watch started buzzing, alerting me to a call from my brother.
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Tag: Lisa Crowe
An Advent Reset
I had to call technical support for my phone last week. Since there have been some software updates, all of my devices weren’t “talking” to each other like they should. One of the first things
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Last week, I took the dogs on a walk before dinner. It was getting late, and I was suddenly aware that I was walking with the setting sun at my back with the full moon
Read moreLook like Jesus
Have you ever considered what it means to live and look like Jesus? I just finished a Bible study that asked that question. In A Jesus Shaped Life, Dr. Lisa Harper challenged us to consider
Read moreSo much stuff
When my Dad passed away two years ago, my brother and I made the decision to sell our childhood home. That meant that we had to go through the house room by room and sort
Read moreCalled to Unity
I’ve been part of the church for as long as I can remember. My parents took me long before I had any opinion in the matter. And as I’ve grown older, I have found stability,
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If I ask you for directions, please dispense with words like east and west. I do better with landmarks. And don’t tell me I can’t miss it, because my brain hears that as a
Read moreMaking Room
It’s yard sale season where I live. Every year, we rifle through our belongings and bemoan that our excess stuff has exceeded our storage capacity. We drag out the jeans that haven’t fit since college,
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Are you living a quiet life? That’s a serious question. Paul told the Thessalonian church to strive to live a quiet life. The whole verse says, “make it your ambition to live a quiet life,
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Next week is Holy Week, the holiest time in the Christian calendar. Even those of us in churches who don’t follow the liturgical calendar pause to observe the last week that Jesus lived on earth.
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