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The Audacity of a Shared Meal
I invited myself over for dinner at a friends’ home. I’m not normally one to barge in but it was the first warm evening in a long time. I’d been at a women’s retreat and had enjoyed singing God’s praises with other women for the first time in forever. And it just seemed like too …[ read more ]
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If God Was Like Iron Chef
Many of us live our days like we’re competing on Iron Chef. We wake up, pretty much knowing the tools at our disposal and the task at hand but each morning we’re handed a surprise ingredient by the universe and we’re forced to work it into every dish of the day. We race against the …[ read more ]
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Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Oldest Joke or Oldest Clue in the Universe?
Today I realized that the answer to one of my oldest questions may be locked inside one of the oldest jokes in the universe. My oldest question? Why would God give Adam and Eve a choice about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? He knew the consequences for all humans if they …[ read more ]