A good friend and I decided on New Year’s Eve that we would do a 40 day fast together starting on January first. We’re reading a 40 day devotional together and checking in on each other daily. As I have stated here before, just last year in fact, I am not one for resolutions. But I do like to take stock of what’s working and what isn’t, especially at the beginning of a new year. Our decision was prompted by her admitting that she eats way too much sugar and feels like she rea

Happy New Year!   Does the New Year fill you with a sense of dread or does it energize and excite you? I have always had mixed feelings about the New Year. As I said last year, I gave up resolutions a long time ago but I do love the idea of planning for the coming year. Resolutions, to me, are rooted in giving something up, subtraction rather than addition, and frankly, most of us don’t like giving things up. Because of this, I loved it when our pastor spoke last Sunday about

I love Christmas because I love the season of Advent, a word pregnant (pun intended) with meaning. The word advent  means, the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event. The word Advent means, the coming of Christ at the Incarnation. It is derived from the Latin adventus, meaning arrival or appearance, from advenire, to arrive, to come (Webster’s).   Okay, but what does Advent really mean, to us as Christians living in 2025, and why do we celebrate it?    “To be serious ab

I saw a meme a while back that I found hilarious and also a very accurate description of my life,  it said; “Being an adult is saying, ‘after this week, things will slow down,’ until you die.” Can anyone else relate? And of course the funniest thing about that is that I am a mature adult who has the privilege of dictating my own schedule, so I actually have only myself to blame for said busyness.   Yet, when I stop to consider all the reasons that I find myself so busy, each