by JAC | Mar 8, 2019 | Fear, Lent
‘As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.’ David Brooks Lent began on Wednesday, and I am in the habit of letting go of something that distracts me from more important...
by JAC | Feb 28, 2019 | Lent, Mindfulness, Simplicity, Transformation, Uncategorized
I keep thinking about writing here, and then for some reason I don’t. There is just such an overwhelming amount of words and thoughts out in the world and at our fingertips; I hesitate to add to it just for the sake of saying something or building a...
by JAC | Feb 13, 2018 | Advent, Children's Books, Lent, Waiting
Every day the little boy pulled up the weeds around the seed and sprinkled the ground with water. But nothing came up. And nothing came up. Everyone kept saying it wouldn’t come up. Ruth Krauss, The Carrot Seed Every year around Thanksgiving I buy one of those...