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Called to Care for Creation

on April 22, 2026

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On Birds, Barking Dogs, and Leaf Blowers...

I went for a walk the other day. The air was brisk and the birds were singing. Most of the fall leaves have dropped but there are plenty of evergreen trees and bushes in my neighborhood where birds are nesting and hiding out. It was lovely. The week before, I took a short video of the sky with the soundtrack of birds and decided to post it on Instagram as a minute of "Wordless wonder and worship for your weekend." Even this self-proclaimed "word-girl" needs the quiet I find in nature, and it was calming to my soul to record and share a minute of wordless wonder. I wanted to do it again, so while I was out walking on Friday, I tried to take some more video of trees and birds. But there were leaf blowers. They just kept blowing. It was crazy how their noise would carry across backyards and echo throughout the neighborhood. The birds kept singing, but I couldn't take a video without the leaf blower and lawn mowers intruding on my soundtrack. I actually laughed out ...

Please Don't Shoot Your Boat

I hate to admit this, but I have a tendency to shoot holes in my boat. I look around and see so many boats that are leaking or full-blown sinking, so I just go ahead and shoot a hole in mine because somehow it feels wrong if I'm not sinking, too. Photo by Jassim Vailoces on Unsplash Of course, I'm not talking about literal boats. I'm not really out on a lake shooting a hole in my son's kayak or my hubby's little aluminum fishing boat. (That would be crazy.) I'm talking about my heart. I can be very tempted to sink my emotional boat when I see others sinking. Logical or not, it's hard for me to feel okay when others aren't okay. (Spoiler alert! This is a problem because there's always someone in the world who is not okay.) I've gone through a lot of emotions and adjustments in the last weeks. (See my previous post about COVID-19 Culture Shock .) But at this point, even though my city/state is still COVID-19-CLOSED, I am doing okay. Our p...

Rhythms all around...

Winter is in full force here in the northern hemisphere. (And my friends who live in the southern hemisphere are feeling the heat of summer!) From seasons to sunrises, we are surrounded by rhythms and cycles of all kinds. Earth's orbit moves us from summer to fall to winter. Our planet spins, moving us from day to night. Tides come in and out. The moon waxes and wanes. Our muscles contract and relax. Our hearts pump and pump again while lungs inhale and exhale. We wake and we sleep. (The teenagers eat and sleep and eat again... ) We work and we rest. You might be expecting me to quote Ecclesiastes 3 right about now, but I'm actually thinking about Lamentations 3:22-23 . The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. It's such an extraordinary contrast to the always shifting seasons of the earth and moods of people. God's love - His HESED - never stops or runs out. His compassi...

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