sanctification

The Better Portion

Does the story of Mary and Martha bother anyone else? Honestly, for much of my life I’ve had a hard

Among my lettuce seedlings, tiny weeds had sprung up — they were intertwined with the fragile lettuce leaves, and I

A few months ago, while we were back in the States for the holidays, a dear friend asked me how

I’ve been spinning my wheels for a couple of months now. A year ago, I would have told you that

I died at the tender age of four. I stood at the front of the sanctuary, the first of my

There’s a pile in my closet: a skirt too small,

And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people

Tonight I swept, for the third time today, the dining room and kitchen floors. As I coaxed the gatherings into