(Ezra 3) Blue sky, pleasant breeze, casual chit chat. Just two gals on a walk . . . Until one gal pulls up short and looks the other gal in the eye. Looks me in the eye. Pointedly.  “So . . .” she exhales slowly, “are you open to joy?” Not the joy of the…

(Luke 3) The grass is always greener on the other side. A proverb about perception.  A concept that is about to start speaking hard to me.  You’ll see what I mean . . . The journey of hard grief after Ron died felt like a long dark tunnel. With two choices. Stand in place ….

(Luke 5:1-10, John 21:1-13) I didn’t plan to wind up here. Seated upon the jetty. Feet dangling out over the water. Trying to breathe out stress.  My birthday flipped a switch in my head. I’m having a difficult time not obsessing about the fact that I am well deep into the second half of my…