During the Advent season, we will feature artwork each week by ChanMi Jung Pyles. The theme for the second week of Advent is Peace. Enjoy ChanMi’s painting and poem, entitled “Peace I Leave with You.” Day after day, Year after year, Century after century, people like you and me looked…
On this first week of Advent, Rachel Varghese, a self described introvert and homeschooling mama, reflects on hope. Out my kitchen window, I see the forest preserve trees left their imprint of scattered leaves as it shakes off any last sign of growth over my backyard. I’m sipping my too…
During the Advent season, we will feature artwork each week by ChanMi Jung Pyles. The theme for the first week of Advent is Hope. Enjoy ChanMi’s painting, which comes in two pieces and is entitled, “I Am Making a Way.” (Poem by Joyce Koo Dalrymple) Right here in the…
As the leaves change hues and the crisp breeze hits my face to welcome autumn, I can sense the pace of the year speeding faster than my mind can manage. By October, friends start asking, “What are you doing for Thanksgiving?” While our schedule is at the mercy of other…
“I have trauma?” The words escaped as barely a whisper. I had just begun learning about trauma to better minister to hurting people, but the Spirit guided me down an unexpected path—into my own story and the wounded places I had long buried. What I discovered changed everything: My capacity…
When I was fourteen years old, my parents started leaving the house on Tuesday evenings for mysterious “meetings.” They wouldn’t say where they were going or why. Since they were active leaders in our church who always had church-related business to attend to, I told myself it was probably some…
