by Gwen | Apr 14, 2020 | Comfort, Community, COVID-19, Friendship, Home, Hope, Love, Relationships, Truth
This is a theme that’s been growing in my mind. Like those bulbs buried all winter in the dark, the other day it finally sprouted. I’d been watching people hoard, criticize, ignore, demand, and blame leaders, especially politicians. Fear and anxiety can spread across the world faster than a virus. I struggled daily trying to figure out my role, to come up with a spiritual vaccine I might offer. What could protect us from losing our better selves in the face of this crisis?
by Gwen | Sep 21, 2017 | Brokenness, Comfort, Faith, Family, Grace, Hope, Jim Ford, Love, Pain, Peace
There’s a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder I was nine months pregnant with my first baby when Granny died. Earlier in the evening I stood beside the hospital bed where...
by Gwen | May 25, 2016 | Church, Comfort, Education, Faith, Family, Freedom, Friendship, Humor, Peace
That old mantra: get out of your comfort zone. And it occurred to him, what is so bad about staying in your comfort zone? A comfort zone actually sounds kind of nice. Is it possible we’ve been getting it wrong all along?
I thought that was pure genius.
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