There have been times in my life when I have been so thankful to be “not the only _______”. For me it has been not the only tall girl, white person, female, mission minded person, person in jeans, etc. I know that this is a feeling everyone has about whatever their circumstance. As a girl…
My family just returned from a family reunion on my cheesehead husband’s side. The weather in Wisconsin was lovely but they all kept complaining about how hot it was there! It got up to 90 degrees! For those of us living in Oklahoma, in the hottest summer on record, 90 degrees was a wonderfully cool…
Two things have surprised me regularly in this process of starting a new church. The first is the loneliness. As someone who has always been part of a church community, the isolation has surprised me. Yes, I have been meeting new people and have enjoyed hearing their stories but those relationships are new. I have…
