Inside the Minds of Valerie and Mike (and Anna)
The word epiphany comes from the Greek ἐπιφάνεια meaning “to make manifest, to show forth, to appear”. We use it when we have those “aha! moments”, when something becomes clear that wasn’t previously. But what was being revealed at Epiphany? What do we see, that we hadn’t before? Anam Cara Ministries, Facebook post 1/5/22 Apocalypse, per... Continue Reading →
I recently read a post proposing that we were designed or meant to hold and respond to the hardships that happened in our village, not the world, and that we are suffering from our emotional circuit breakers being overloaded. I get it. It’s been an exhausting five and half years…at least. As citizens of the world, more... Continue Reading →
What is hopefully, and looking like, the end of the pandemic for us on the East Coast, is also as I write this, the middle of the emergence of billions, maybe trillions, of Brood X 17-year cicadas. And the epicenter is here, metro Washington, DC. We are out in the suburbs but not in the... Continue Reading →
I seem to be working from a place of urgency lately. We have had some projects going on at home that I’m suddenly aware of feeling as though I’m nesting. Last month we cut down a maple tree in our front yard and we still have the logs gathered together and to the side. We... Continue Reading →
Earlier this week I went up to our local Lutheran camp and retreat center, Mar-Lu Ridge, for a morning of quilt assembling. After we were all done, before I drove home, I went into the chapel. The chapel is an A-frame structure with a wall of glass behind the altar that faces west with a... Continue Reading →
That was the question put to me recently by my pastor. My initial answer…I didn’t know. Words were, are, failing me at this moment. Of course the question and answers simmered after we hung up. The short answer would be the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful. At the moment, do I have a... Continue Reading →
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