Fear – Page 6

December 30, 2015 | Leave a Comment

Out of the garden

So, the Lord God drove Eve and Adam out of the Garden of Eden, and told them to till the ground from which they had been taken. (Genesis 3:24)

It’s a strange place to begin a New Year, but it’s where I am. No, I haven’t been fired from my job or displaced from my home by floods like some friends in Missouri. I do, however, have a sense of having been drop kicked into a new land. It’s a good land, but an unfamiliar land, and I’m wondering what will grow there.

The unfamiliar land is a product of my age and stage in life. [Read more…]

November 17, 2015 | Leave a Comment

Blind

It’s a Tuesday and an unexpected day at home due to an early power outage. My schoolteacher husband is here along with my kids, so “working” from home is, well, a challenge.

I rouse my family for lunch and then declare it tidy-time, i.e. pick-up-your-dirty-socks time, and I volunteer to clean the kitchen. By the time I’m finishing, I feel some pressure to get back to “work”—Christmas is coming, after all.

“All done,” I declare to myself with satisfaction, until my daughter wanders through the room. [Read more…]

August 27, 2015 | Leave a Comment

Lunch in Ferguson

It was Wednesday, August 12, and my daughter Elly and I were on the last couple of legs of our cross country odyssey. We were heading into St. Louis where I had served 7 years as an associate pastor in North St. Louis County. More to the point, we were heading to Ferguson for lunch.

Yes, Ferguson. Shootings. Protests. Riots. Lootings. Ferguson.

We were going to eat lunch in Ferguson, because that’s where my husband and I bought our first house. Elly was just months old. Our neighbors welcomed us. We ate at the coffee shop, and visited the library across the street, and played at the city park within walking distance. Elly learned how to ride a bike in Ferguson. We brought Karl home from the hospital to our house in Ferguson.

Ferguson was home, and that’s where I wanted to eat lunch at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

Elly, however, did not.

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