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We don’t talk enough in the church about this, but the most important charge I can give to you as a pastor is to put your own spiritual life first. Make tending to your spirit your highest priority in ministry. As strange as it may sound, for pastors to make time to tend our soulsContinue reading “Pray, Play, Pause”

In the first part of this series of reflections about our congregation’s sabbatical theme “Joy to the World,” we reflected on “heaven and nature sing.” Joy is an original gift from our Creator. If the sound of wind dancing through the branches of the palm trees is a sound of joy, what, then, is theContinue reading “Sabbatical Joy Part II: Rhythms of Joy”

Yesterday my husband Jonathan and I celebrated our seventeenth wedding anniversary. We are grateful to still be together. Ever since we met one of the things we most enjoy is going on adventures. We met 20 years ago in Minneapolis and in our first two years together we explored Lake Superior, made a road tripContinue reading “Sabbatical Joy Part I: Heaven and Nature Sing”