This people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed…But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. – Matthew 13:15a, 16 (ESV) For as long … more
With Lent drawing to a close as we step into Holy week I have been thinking about repentance. Specifically, I have been thinking about how hard it is. I have three young kids, the oldest of which are five and … more
This year, March inaugurates a new birthday celebration at my house as our wobbly-legged youngest son turns one. Like many mothers, I could swear it was just yesterday that he was born, and perhaps it is that sincere vividness which … more
Perhaps now that we are nearing mid-month New Year’s Resolutions are already old news – I for one can attest that my initial, steely resolve to give up refined sugar has long lapsed – yet this reflection on a better … more
(This article was originally published in Comment magazine, January 29, 2010). Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s … more
I am not what you would call a “routine” person. I fancy myself a responsible adult, of course, but the repetition that is the daily work of family life has often come as a particular challenge to my more natural … more
A few months ago I joined my husband on a business trip for a meeting he did not anticipate to be terribly productive. At some point on our trip I was asking how I could pray for him, and he … more
In Washington DC, it is only a matter of time before the kind woman standing next to me at a cocktail party will turn from talking with my husband and ask the inevitable, identity-testing, status-gauging question I have come to … more
Work Matters
This week has been one of those weeks in which the world feels small – tiny even – as several people from various seasons of my life and relationships have converged in unexpected and surprising places day after day. Some … more »