by Michelle Van Loon | Oct 24, 2019 | Books, General Thoughts
Conversation is by nature participatory. Even when we are not speaking, we participate by listening carefully and by weighing in our minds what is said. If a gathering is not … Read...
by Michelle Van Loon | Oct 1, 2019 | Books, General Thoughts
The language of transformation in the New Testament, for example, is in the passive voice. Rather than being initiators of the action, we are responders to the action of another. … Read...
by ThePerennialGen | Feb 23, 2019 | Books
by Michele Morin The layers of life, in all their overwhelming proportions, call for a large God. The unexpected diagnosis, the many ways in which we disappoint ourselves, and the … Read...
by Michelle Van Loon | Jan 25, 2019 | Books, General Thoughts, Spiritual Formation
There are clues in all of our lives that point to what will bring us joy in our own ‘second act’. – Julia Cameron Maybe you’re looking at a career … Read...
by ThePerennialGen | Jan 11, 2019 | Books, General Thoughts
by Michele Morin Our first summer living on this country hill, the budget was tight and luxuries were few. I had planted a garden that seemed huge to me at … Read...
by ThePerennialGen | Aug 31, 2018 | Books
by Michele Morin Part of the delight of spending time with my tiny grandson is that he takes nothing for granted. Nothing. “Bam, why bubble pop?” “Because you stood on … Read...