As we focus on growing closer to Jesus, may we carve out time and opportunities to walk with him in joy. If that happens to include fish sticks for dinner, let me know what time I should be there.

We are blessed to have dirty dishes to wash.

This Lent holds a different kind of hope and promise.

Our daily lives are different in so many ways, transformed suddenly almost a year ago and then evolving bit by bit every day.

In many ways, it feels we have been in one long Lent for almost a year now.

Many years for Lent I take on too many goals and give up too many things. A few days into Lent, I invariably realize I have failed at everything I planned to give up and take on.

We so rarely know what will be asked of us on any given day. All we can really do is accept each task as it’s placed in front of us.

Remember way back at the beginning of the pandemic when we were all jockeying for yeast and discussing sourdough starters? It seems like a distant memory. Lately, I feel I’m thinking more about which local restaurant I want to support tonight.

Welcome to the Year of the Ox.

I’ve been thinking just how much we all need to laugh right now.